The figures of the migration crisis in Ceuta do not quite fit. The Ministry of the Interior maintains that approximately 2,000 of the people who entered the city are still there, but the data collected on the ground paints a much more difficult scenario to quantify.
According to El País, the Red Cross distributed more than 2,500 food rations on Thursday only on the Trampolín beach. Humanitarian workers and agents assigned to that area estimate that more than 2,000 people are concentrated there.
Vivas estimates between 3,000 and 6,000 people
The president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, raised his own estimate to a range of 3,000 to 6,000 people still not fully identified.
To that difficulty is added the count of minors. A neighborhood initiative in the area of El Príncipe registered 4,860 children and adolescents in two days, while the Minister of Youth and Childhood, Sira Rego, reported this Friday 1,342 minors already counted within the reception systems. Both figures cannot be directly added because the groups may overlap.
The CETI is also above its usual capacity and currently houses 727 people, although not all arrived during the influx at the end of July.
The problem of closing a definitive figure is outside the official records. There are immigrants hosted by individuals or who remain outside the main care devices and have not yet completed their identification.
For this reason, more than two contradictory figures, Ceuta now has several partial censuses of the same crisis. The Interior acknowledges that its data is estimative and assures that it currently does not have reliable information to justify modifying it.