Hundreds of immigrants have re-established themselves this Friday on the beach of El Trampolín, in Ceuta, a few hours after the area was evacuated to carry out cleaning and disinfection tasks. In recent days, this sandy area has transformed into the main focus of the migration crisis that the Autonomous City has been experiencing since the massive entry recorded on the past 30th and 31st of July.
Early in the morning, the immigrants —then all of Maghreb origin— were concentrated between a breakwater and the wall of the Desalination Plant of Ceuta, while municipal workers began to access the site to clean and disinfect. The City had conditioned this Thursday the intervention of the cleaning teams on ensuring the safety of the workers at all times.
While the employees, accompanied by police officers, advanced with the sanitation work and the immigrants who had spent the night at El Trampolín waited in a designated area, other groups of immigrants began to arrive, in this case of sub-Saharan origin, many of them with bags of food distributed previously by various non-governmental organizations that assist these groups.
In this context, and as spokespersons from entities like Elin have pointed out, the immigrants will continue to remain on the beach of El Trampolín as long as they do not have another place where they can spend the night in minimal conditions.
At the edge of noon, once the cleaning and disinfection tasks were completed, the immigrants spread out again across the beach. Numerous groups arrived with tents already prepared, while others opted to rebuild theirs using various materials found in the surroundings of the area.