CEUTA UPDATE:

The secretary of the United Police Union in Ceuta, Andrés Carrera, said yesterday that the avalanche of illegal immigrants that tried to cross the wall between Morocco and Ceuta the night of September 29 was caused by a fight in a nearby Moroccan town in which "Moroccan gendarmes intervened with open fire. They weren't prepared to climb the wall that night." Immigrants back up the union's claims. According to the union, the confrontation began "either among the immigrants themselves or with a third party, and after the gendarmes fired, the people became frightened, headed for their camps, and decided to jump the wall. They had not prepared to go that night, but, rather, were in contact with those who had been successful at Melilla and were deciding whether to go there, because it looked like it was easier to cross at that city." Regarding the gunfire in the vecinity of the border fence, which killed at least five illegal immigrants, Carrera declared that Spanish forces did not fire. "I said that even before we knew that they had been killed by gunfire, because these things always happen and they try to blame Spanish forces."

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