Spain stocks African enclave Ceuta with boosted security as Morocco monitors calls for second border rush

Spain and Morocco person beefed up information connected some sides of the borderline successful Spain's African enclave Ceuta arsenic renewed calls circulate societal media for Moroccan migrants to unreserved the borderline a 2nd clip aft an archetypal wide migration lawsuit successful July overwhelmed the city.

Soldiers patrolled the city's commercialized and authorities buildings Friday portion an enhanced constabulary beingness could beryllium seen connected Ceuta's main avenues, Reuters reported.

On the Moroccan side, information unit dressed successful all-black patrolled the beaches of Fnideq, 1 of the astir salient launching points from which migrants illegally entered Ceuta connected July 30 arsenic portion of a wide migration lawsuit that saw implicit 70,000 radical unreserved into Ceuta from Morocco.

The strengthened information followed calls connected societal media for Moroccans to again unreserved into Ceuta, and into Spain's different African enclave, Melilia, connected Saturday.

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Moroccan information forces clash with migrants attempting to transverse into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta adjacent the municipality of Fnideq, connected the Morocco-Spain border, connected July 31, 2026. (Abdel Majid Bziouat / AFP via Getty Images)

"The Ministry of the Interior has detected, during the past fewer days, the circulation of anonymous publications and messages connected definite societal networks inciting the enactment of attempts astatine corporate and amerciable crossing to the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, practices which transportation superior risks to the information of radical and purpose to instrumentalize migration issues successful acts of incitement, which are criminalized by law," Morocco's Ministry of the Interior said successful a connection posted to the country's state-affiliated quality website MAP.

Morocco arrested aggregate radical who circulated the inciting statements, Interior Ministry spokesperson Rachid El Khalfi said.

The Interior Ministry besides called connected Spain to proceed moving to instrumentality the remaining Moroccan migrants successful Ceuta backmost to the North African country.

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Migrants tally and cheer arsenic they transverse connected ft into the North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, aft swimming implicit from the Moroccan broadside and overwhelming constabulary astatine the city's breakwater, according to Spain's Guardia Civil, successful Ceuta, Spain, July 30, 2026. (FARO TV via Reuters)

Of the much than 72,000 migrants who rushed the border, the immense bulk person returned to Morocco, according to statements from Spain and Ceuta's government. About 5,000 remain, Spain's Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told reporters Friday.

Spanish officials person been screening the remaining migrants and person processed astir 500 asylum seekers' cases, rejecting the immense bulk of them, Reuters reported.

Spain has besides installed floating barriers successful the waters wherever migrants had antecedently swam across.

Members of the Royal Moroccan Navy patrol connected the Moroccan broadside of the floating obstruction disconnected the borderline with Morocco, pursuing wide crossings of migrants connected ft and by oversea from Morocco into Spanish territory, arsenic seen from Ceuta, Spain, August 2, 2026. (REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura/File Photo)

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At slightest 96 radical died during the wide migration event.

Fox News Digital contacted the governments of Spain, Morocco and Ceuta for further comment.

Reuters contributed to this report.