Mass arrival of immigrants to Ceuta, in images

1A Civil Guard agent rescues a baby on the Ceuta border with Morocco.

In the last 24 hours, thousands of young people, but also entire families, have thrown themselves into the sea before the passivity of the Moroccan authorities.

Among the newcomers, it is estimated that there are about 1,500 minors.

A man died trying.

Civil Guard

2A man arrives on the beach while the Army cordons off the area, this Tuesday.

Javier Bauluz

3Spanish police try to disperse migrants on the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

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4Soldiers of the Spanish Legion use their defenses against immigrants who have just crossed the border at Tarajal beach.

Javier Bauluz

5Spain has already returned 4,000 people to Morocco, according to the Interior Ministry.

Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has assured that there are no minors among them.

Meanwhile, Morocco has deployed riot police on the border on Tuesday to stop the entry of migrants into Ceuta.

In the image, a soldier guards several young immigrants, some of them wounded, on the Tarajal beach, on the border of Ceuta.

Javier Bauluz

6An Army soldier helps an immigrant who has managed to cross one of Ceuta's breakwaters, this Tuesday.

The arrival of people swimming and on foot was constant throughout Monday and Tuesday on the same beach where tanks have been deployed.

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7Spanish police try to disperse immigrants on the Ceutí border.

Thousands of people tried to cross the Tarajal breakwater this morning.

The entries began to decrease around noon and in the afternoon they have practically stopped: in the sea there were people swimming, but no longer attempts to cross the border.

FADEL SENNA AFP

8Members of the Army help a group of immigrants who have managed to cross one of the border breakwaters of Ceuta this Tuesday.

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9Members of the Army help a group of immigrants who have managed to cross one of the border breakwaters of Ceuta this Tuesday.

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10A member of the Army transfers an immigrant minor in one of the border breakwaters of Ceuta, this Tuesday.

The massive arrival of emigrants of all ages and conditions from Castillejos, in Morocco, to cross the land border with the Spanish city of Ceuta has continued for the second day in a row with no apparent response from the Moroccan police Reduan EFE

11A group of people try to swim from the beach in the town of Fnideq (Castillejos, Morocco) to one of the breakwaters in Ceuta, this Tuesday.

Mohamed Siali EFE

12Migrants swim past the breakwater of the Moroccan border with Spain in Ceuta, this Tuesday.

Joaquin Sanchez

13A group of immigrants are returned to Morocco by the Spanish authorities on the border between Ceuta and Fnideq, this Tuesday.

The intention of the Ministry of the Interior is to negotiate with Morocco the return of the immigrants and so far about 2,700 returns have been carried out, according to the Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska.

Mohamed Siial EFE

14A group of immigrants from Morocco emerge from the water after swimming across the border.

The Interior Ministry reported mid-afternoon on Tuesday that it has already processed the return of some 4,000 immigrants, half of the nearly 8,000 who have entered Ceuta irregularly since yesterday.

In addition, it has enabled a 24-hour management system to streamline these procedures and a new increase in police officers in the area.

Javier Bauluz

15National Police and military agents monitor hundreds of immigrants after their arrival in Ceuta this Tuesday.

Joaquin Sanchez

16 Dozens of people avoid Moroccan police as they try to reach the border in Fnideq.

The massive entry of Moroccans, due to the inaction of the security forces of the Moroccan gendarmerie, occurs in a context of diplomatic tension with Morocco.

Rabat is upset with Spain for the admission to a hospital in Logroño of the leader of the Polisario Front and president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Brahim Gali, 73 years old and suffering from covid-19.

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17Two soldiers beat a young man on the legs while, in the background, two Red Cross workers tend to another.

Several Army units were deployed in Ceuta early Tuesday to help control the city's streets after the entry of more than 8,000 immigrants, most of them Moroccans, through the border breakwaters.

Javier Bauluz

18Moroccan security agents stand guard as a group of migrants walk along the coast in the northern city of Fnideq, in an attempt to cross the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on Tuesday.

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19A soldier from the Army warns the paramedics to come to assist a young man who remains lying on the sand.

The entry of 6,000 people irregularly in a single day is an unprecedented event in Spain.

Not even at times of greatest migratory pressure have similar figures been reached.

The most recent record was broken on the weekend of November 7 and 8 in the Canary Islands, when 1,500 people entered in a single day and that weekend almost 2,200 migrants landed.

Joaquin Sanchez

20Members of the Army help two immigrants who have managed to cross one of Ceuta's border breakwaters.

Reduan EFE

21The Civil Guard helps an immigrant to get closer to the Tarajal beach, this Tuesday.

Joaquin Sanchez

22 Dozens of Moroccans wait in front of the breakwater that limits the Moroccan border with Spain in Ceuta.

Joaquin Sanchez

23An agent of the National Police throws smoke canisters on the perimeter of the city of Ceuta, this Tuesday.

Joaquin Sanchez

24Spanish military guard the El Tarajal breakwater through which 8,000 people have accessed in two days.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has published a message of support for the city on Twitter.

"My priority at this time is to restore normalcy to Ceuta." Joaquín Sánchez

25A young man stands on a rock in front of the Tarajal beach, on the border of Ceuta.

The arrival of people swimming and on foot has been constant throughout Monday and continues this Tuesday morning on the same beach where tanks have been deployed.

Jon Nazca Reuters