Spanish mothers in Ceuta are in tears on live television. Hospitals are overflowing. Beaches and parks that once hosted families are now open-air camps of garbage, feces and makeshift shacks. And the Civil Guard has confirmed at least 15 rapes since the late-July mass migrant invasion — including a 10-year-old girl allegedly assaulted by three migrant brothers.
Women are packing up and leaving the Spanish enclave. Local residents describe a city abandoned by its own government while Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez remains on vacation.
A mother broke down on live TV this week, describing the daily terror for her teenage daughter.
“My 16-year-old daughter has to go everywhere with her father or with me because the migrants devour her. I can’t take it anymore. I want them all gone,” she stated.
She added, “I’m not racist—my granddaughter is mixed-race, my best friends are Muslim—but they can’t invade us. What’s stayed here is the worst of it; there are murderers, rapists, thieves.”
This is the reality two weeks after an estimated 70,000-plus migrants poured across from Morocco into a city of roughly 84,000 people. Reception centres collapsed. Thousands — largely young men — stayed behind when many others returned. Beaches became the default settlement.