The march will depart from the Atocha roundabout and conclude in front of Congress with the reading of a manifesto that sets a deadline of thirty days.
This Sunday, 25th October, starting at 11:00 hours, a march will leave from the Atocha roundabout towards the Plaza de las Cortes, in front of the Congress of Deputies, to demand more reinforcement at the Ceuta border. According to moncloa.com, the call is made by Mujeres Caballas, a group of heads of families from the autonomous city that does not have a party structure.
The protest will end with the reading of a manifesto that sets a deadline of thirty days for the requested changes to be implemented. Among these are more human, material, and technological resources for the Guardia Civil at the border perimeter, the return of immigrants, and an urgent amendment of the Foreigners' Law.
The march comes nearly three months after the mass entry on 30th July, which the organization identifies as the origin of the conflict and estimates at 80,000 people. The logistics are handled by the families themselves: there are about ten full buses and transport chartered from Alicante, Granada, Seville, Málaga, and Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), funded by Ceuta entrepreneurs.
The organisers ask participants to wear white or black t-shirts, the colours of the Ceuta flag, and the attendance of the city president, Juan Jesús Vivas, is expected. For Maxi Lacasa, a local police officer in Ceuta and a member of Mujeres Caballas, the situation requires immediate measures:
We have not seen any solution in these three months. Ceuta needs an immediate return of immigrants and a reinforcement of the borders with more human, material, and technological resources.
The organization describes daily brawls that require medical assistance and claims that more than 400 sexual assaults have been recorded. This last figure is not accompanied by a specific statistical source, as the organization itself specifies in its account.
In the health sector, the general secretary of the Satse union in Ceuta, Elisabeth Muñoz, a nurse, speaks of pressure on emergency services. She criticizes the Ministry of Health for publishing data that, in her opinion, do not reflect the reality of the city.
Ceuta and Melilla are the only land borders of the European Union in Africa, and their surveillance is the responsibility of the Guardia Civil according to the Organic Law 2/1986 on Security Forces and Bodies. In a city of about 83,000 inhabitants, the National Police and the Local Police also operate. The Ministry of the Interior is the ultimate recipient of the requests for reinforcement.
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