Shona Murray
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first heard Aug 2026
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So what we've heard from the Spanish foreign affairs minister over the weekend was that he said that virtually all have been returned as a result of the Spanish army and then also an engagement with the Moroccan authorities.
On Friday evening into Saturday, they said around 1,500 people were still there.
There are reception centres in Sueta for people, for migrants who wish to apply for asylum to join the European Union.
And those reception centres are full, which meant that anybody else who hadn't returned back was sort of left outside, wasn't given access to any food, any water, were starving.
We've seen testimonies from people who said that they were willing to return because they hadn't eaten in days.
They said that they were encouraged to come across the border because they were told that it was the border between Sueta and Spain was opening.
They would be able to have access to the European Union.
Obviously, that was not the case.
Well, this is a really important point because the Spanish government have said that this wasn't a crisis that had any sort of impact or was going to have any impact on the European Union because not one person managed to get into Spain and therefore within the European Union or within the Schengen borders.
But immediately the Italian Prime Minister, Meloni, she said that she was going to try to sanction or suspend Spain's membership of the Schengen open borders contract.
programme that the European Union has.
It was backed by Finland, Denmark, other countries, 22 countries.
Now, the thing about it is they don't, they have the power to suspend another country's membership.
That's the first thing.
Second thing is sometimes it has happened that Schengen borders have been implemented.
We saw throughout COVID, but they have to be emergency circumstances and it's not for countries to do it unilaterally.
But moreover,
The point was that the immediate response from these countries was to punish Spain, even though this clearly wasn't something that Spain had encouraged or allowed.
When in actual fact, as the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said, they should have been responded with solidarity.
And we've seen this happen before the instrumentalization of migrants across Europe.
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