Ceuta: 20 complaints of beatings against migrants and a hundred cases
Direct testimonies and a hundred cases detected by organizations support allegations of military beatings against migrants in Ceuta.
English · Original discussion in Spanish · Published
In Ceuta, twenty complaints of beatings open a war of narratives
A young man refuses to shave a group of boys. According to his account, some military personnel put him in a van, took him to the forest where the Temporary Residence Centre for Immigrants (CETI) is located, and beat him «everywhere» with a stick. This is one of the testimonies in the investigation published by elDiario.es, which cites about twenty direct accounts and a hundred cases detected by organizations on the ground in Ceuta.
The testimonies, which include minors, describe a common pattern attributed to specific groups of soldiers and particularly noted among regulars and legionaries. Bilal, another complainant, claims he was detained near Trampolín beach, forcibly introduced into a military vehicle, and taken to the CETI forest. He shows elongated marks on his arms and back.
What the complaints allege regarding military beatings in Ceuta
The accusation is not generic: it targets specific groups within the deployment and a repeated pattern of conduct—detention, transfer by van, blows with a stick in secluded areas—which the testimonies reproduce with few variations. The complaint is based on accounts, not expert evidence. The crisis in Ceuta, against the backdrop of a government control session, has turned the issue into political ammunition.
Campaign against the military or credible complaints?
It depends on who you ask. One part of the forum comments reads the investigation as an operation against military personnel stationed in Ceuta, arguing that the accounts seek to destabilize or achieve something in return. They compare the case with torture complaints from other eras and question the documentation released, including a medical report. Opposing this view is the volume: twenty direct accounts and a hundred cases detected by organizations.
With these numbers, the investigation should have ceased to be a controversy and become a file. It remains a controversy.
A young man refuses to shave a group of boys. According to his account, some military personnel put him in a van, took him to the forest where the Temporary Residence Centre for Immigrants (CETI) is located, and beat him «everywhere» with a stick. This is one of the testimonies in the investigation published by elDiario.es, which cites about twenty direct accounts and a hundred cases detected by organizations on the ground in Ceuta.
The testimonies, which include minors, describe a common pattern attributed to specific groups of soldiers and particularly noted among regulars and legionaries. Bilal, another complainant, claims he was detained near Trampolín beach, forcibly introduced into a military vehicle, and taken to the CETI forest. He shows elongated marks on his arms and back.
What the complaints allege regarding military beatings in Ceuta
The accusation is not generic: it targets specific groups within the deployment and a repeated pattern of conduct—detention, transfer by van, blows with a stick in secluded areas—which the testimonies reproduce with few variations. The complaint is based on accounts, not expert evidence. The crisis in Ceuta, against the backdrop of a government control session, has turned the issue into political ammunition.
Campaign against the military or credible complaints?
It depends on who you ask. One part of the forum comments reads the investigation as an operation against military personnel stationed in Ceuta, arguing that the accounts seek to destabilize or achieve something in return. They compare the case with torture complaints from other eras and question the documentation released, including a medical report. Opposing this view is the volume: twenty direct accounts and a hundred cases detected by organizations.
With these numbers, the investigation should have ceased to be a controversy and become a file. It remains a controversy.
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