Red Cross assists families and children at Ceuta breakwater

Families, women and children at the breakwater: the new arrival in Ceuta

The first boats reached the Ceuta breakwater before dawn. Since this morning, Red Cross teams have been working at the quay with a changing migrant profile: no longer just young men. Entire families, women with children and minors have been coming ashore throughout the day. The humanitarian organization has activated its response plan, the same one seen in previous migration crises at the southern border.

The clash between the official account and the images from the ground

But behind the relief scene, a dispute mixing distrust, politics and money has flared up. Accusations are circulating that the official narrative does not match what is seen on the ground: alongside the families, there would be more than a hundred young men of military age, an observation some witnesses put at 100. Comparisons with earlier episodes, such as the coverage of empty beaches during the pandemic, have been used to question the editorial line of channels such as T5 and lasensla.

The humanitarian bill and the political noise around the Red Cross

The humanitarian cost will soon show up on the public bill. The recurring criticism of the Red Cross is not only ideological; many see a machinery that lives off crises. This time, the spotlight has fallen on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to reports, minister José Manuel Albares has a close family tie with the organization's vice presidency, a claim that has not been denied and that fuels suspicions of a conflict of interest.

Meanwhile, volunteers are providing assistance on the ground. The paradox is that the operation runs independently of the controversy. The unsettling figure is the scale of the operation: a deployment that does not appear in the official budgets of the Interior Ministry and whose final bill no one has been willing to own. The debate remains open.