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Spain Hunts for Radicals After Ceuta Migrant Surge
Migrants spend the night on the streets after crossing from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Friday, July 31, 2026
Spanish intelligence services are investigating whether extremists entered Ceuta among the tens of thousands of migrants who crossed from Morocco, Spanish media reported, citing Interior Ministry sources.Fnideq, a Moroccan city also known as Castillejos, lies just seven kilometers from Ceuta and has historically been regarded as one of the Maghreb’s hotbeds of Islamist terrorism.Around 60,000 people entered the city in a single day, compared with a local population of roughly 85,000, Ceuta’s mayor-president said.
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