Javier Jennings-Mozo

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Today in Focus · ‘The guards just opened the door’: what happened in Ceuta? · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

When it comes down to the migrants, which is who are the people that were the main focus of our story, this changes a lot.

People are simply in need, and they will take any chance they get to better their lives.

And Yusuf, the main character of our story, actually told us that he had been deported from Spain in 2019 after living in Bilbao, in the north of Spain, for 14 years because he had lost his job, so he had lost his residency.

He simply decided that this was his chance of recovering, getting back the life he had once had since his four daughters and his wife are still in Bilbao.

And we were talking to a lot of people from Sudan, from Egypt, from Yemen, from Nigeria, some Syrians as well.

These people have been waiting in Morocco for seven months, a year and a half, two years, for a chance like this to cross into Europe and claim asylum.

Therefore, any chance that they get, they're going to take.

It's really desperation and it's really need what prompted people to cross.

Then, of course, the news that, you know, the border was open were circulated firstly on social media, I believe, according to what everyone told us.

And Youssef did mention that Moroccan regime-sponsored media were also circulating the news and all of this.

So I think it was a mix of media and social media.

It's quite interesting because the treatment changed from the first day to the days after.

All of them mentioned that, first of all, from the Moroccan side, the guards just opened the door and they told them, run, run, run, go, go, go, get into Spain.

Verbally told them that.

Then once in Spain, after swimming for those five minutes that are sort of around the Spanish side of the border,

They said that the Guardia Civil actually aided them, you know, to get out of the water and allowed them in.

So the treatment was pretty good in terms of Spanish authorities.

Then, of course, a mass influx of people into a city of 85,000 people.

It creates tensions and unrest among the local people.

Some of them understood the needs.

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