Overview
- Local and police sources report roughly 29 to 32 minors entered the enclave by swimming over the weekend, including several girls and a mother with her son.
- Spanish units conducted multiple rescues in rough seas and deployed crowd-control teams on beaches near the Tarajal breakwater.
- Authorities say swimmers time attempts to fog and heavy swell, conditions that complicate interception on the Moroccan side and raise the risk of disorientation and hypothermia.
- Ceuta is caring for about 550 to 564 minors despite an official capacity of 27, with the CETI operating at roughly double capacity and only about 20 minors transferred to the peninsula since late September.
- Morocco has reinforced patrols on land, at sea and by air after a social media call for an Oct. 15 mass crossing, with heightened vigilance reported on both sides of the border.