Pete Ross
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first heard Dec 2025
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In response, the Spanish government says it's sending extra troops to Ceuta.
The Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Maloney, has described the scenes as shocking, adding that Italy was prepared to intervene with extraordinary measures.
Our correspondent Nick Beek took me through the day's events.
The images captured some people making quite a quick journey, coming to shore, other people really struggling.
And there were lifeboats and there were inflatables being thrown out to people.
But really, there was this mass movement of people, which the authorities on this Spanish enclave are saying has caused an emergency, really.
And they're calling on the Spanish government in Madrid to declare this emergency.
as a national emergency.
The authorities there say that they don't have the power to do that.
It's only if it was an earthquake or some sort of wildfire that they can do this.
But they are sending hundreds of extra troops and soldiers to deal with what's happening.
We're talking about quite a significant number of individuals that have made this journey.
Do we know, have any idea of the sort of numbers and do we have a sense or any idea of what's triggered this?
Periodically down the years, there have been attempts, some of them small, for people to move from Morocco into the EU, into Souto itself.
And often the numbers depend on the relationship between Spain and Morocco at any given time.
What seems to have triggered it this time is that this month, the highest court in Spain, the Spanish Supreme Court, came out with this ruling saying that migrants who are intercepted trying to reach Spanish land in northern Africa...
they wouldn't be, in the words of the court, summarily returned.
So they wouldn't be immediately turned back.
And it does seem that this has incentivized hundreds, maybe thousands of people.
We haven't got exact figures.
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