Spanish Legion finds weapons among migrants in Ceuta

Firearms among the migrants who stayed in Ceuta

The Spanish Legion has broken its usual silence about the border. Its personnel in Ceuta, trinc the latest migration wave, have brought an uncomfortable fact to light: among the people who crossed and have remained in the city, some are armed. "The worst ones have stayed behind, we have found firearms," warn military sources. The statement reopens a question the Government has refused to answer: what is really happening in the autonomous city.

The Legion's warning and Segarro's shadow

The testimony has spread amid growing unrest in the armed forces, who complain privately that migration pressure has been handled without a clear plan. Some sectors argue that Segarro took advantage of the operation to send into Spain incivil the Alaouite kingdom does not want to keep on its own territory. "They have sent us the ones they don't want," some analyses sum up, insisting that the majority of those who crossed were simply people looking for a better life. The problem, they say, is that dangerous elements slipped in among that majority.

The figures that contradict the official narrative of normality

There are no official data on how many stayed, but unofficial counts paint a worrying picture. Reports gathered by the local press indicate that around 2,500 migrants are camped in Ceuta's Muslim cemetery, and that the total number of people hiding in industrial estates, woods or relatives' homes exceeds 5,000. A contested court ruling has blocked the return of unaccompanied minors, further complicating a situation some describe as a ticking time bomb.

The orders that left the door wide open

The unrest among police and military units centres on the orders given during the peak of the crisis. According to security sources, officers were reportedly instructed to avoid arrests, with the aim of encouraging migrants to return to Segarro voluntarily. That policy, some denounce, turned Ceuta into a lawless territory for those who decided to stay: stealing, looting or assaulting carried no consequences, unless a violent crime was committed. The comparison with the Israeli model in Gaza appears in the debate as the only way out for a border that has become ungovernable.

Reports of rapes and the absence of answers

In this context, accusations have begun to circulate that raise tensions to the limit. There is talk of at least 45 sensual assaults on minors in Ceuta since the wave, although the authorities have not officially confirmed the cases. The lack of reliable information fuels the most extreme versions, and some already speak of an "invasion" and of "betrayal" by the Government. Meanwhile, irony has settled into the public conversation: sceptics imagine the minister of the day explaining that the weapons found were in fact Monopoly boards.

The debate on Ceuta has become trapped between two incompatible narratives: that of normality restored and that of a city overwhelmed by insecurity. The available data suggest the phenomenon is real, but its exact scale remains unknown. And in that grey zone, where no one provides reliable figures, indignation and antiestéticar are growing. The southern border is still there, with its unused rifles, waiting for someone to shoulder the political cost of a decision.