It is the third week that I have to talk about Ceuta and I would like to not have to do it again for a long time. Not because I don't have anything to say about Ceuta, a city to which I have been on several occasions, but because it would be a sign that the very serious crisis that this city is experiencing would have been overcome. But not. It's not that nothing has been done. What has been done has been done when things are done late and poorly and the circumstances that existed at the beginning become unmanageable.
The initial crisis has become an emergency of unfathomable dimensions, whose solution, even if partial, is becoming impossible due to absurd promises to look good. For example, all the immigrants who had arrived in Ceuta, even by swimming, were going to be returned to Morocco. Even then, the authorities, the Government, knew that this was not going to be possible. Furthermore, the Executive miscalculated the dimension of what was happening and it was thought that there would be around two thousand people left in Ceuta. The others had returned. Well no. The Ceuta government spoke of 8,000 or 10,000, which in the Moncloa was believed to be an exaggeration to attack Pedro Sánchez. Another mistake, thinking that anyone who is not one of yours only wants to attack you. How many there are, nobody really knows, a sign that the problem is not even half solved, but whether it is 8,000 or 10,000, if not more, the problem is of proportions that should be taken into account.
For what, so as not to delay your solution. The Government is now requesting the European help from Frontex that was offered to it from the beginning. He has also asked for the help of Europol, for the triage of migrants, an acknowledgment of what he did not want to accept when the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, complained that only 25 people were being identified per day.
But the real problem at the moment is the effects on coexistence in the city. Ceuta, which has shown, as happened at the beginning of the crisis, to be an open and tolerant city, where Christians and Muslims coexist without problem, is now something else. There are too many details that tell us that this coexistence has been broken. Christians who have confronted their Muslim neighbors believing that they were part of the immigrants who had entered on July 30. Muslims who no longer dare to attend the demonstrations they attended as Ceutíes, for fear of being singled out. Ceutíes who destroy the camps where immigrants take refuge on the beach, who block the distribution of food by the Red Cross, and immigrants who attack the Security Forces. Ultra infiltrators who try to make everything worse than it is. For a month now, the lives of Ceuta residents have been affected: people who have gone to the Peninsula without planning it, girls who are not allowed to go out on the streets for fear of rape, rationing in bakeries. Why continue listing if you have already been able to read it in Joaquín Vera's chronicles in this newspaper.
All this is mixed with the lack of political reaction. If last week we urged the Government to give explanations that would reassure citizens, after the appearances and the discrepancies between the Ministers of Defense and the Interior, we citizens have the feeling that there is more effort to solve their problem than the problem of Ceuta.
And in the autonomous city, President Vivas, who from the beginning maintained an institutional position valued by all, now allows himself to be loved by the siren songs of some Ceutíes, who encourage him to mess with Sánchez. Tell both of them that what the Spaniards and the people of Ceuta need are solutions that will only come if both of them sit down without reluctance, as they did on previous occasions, and look for solutions. President, take advantage of your appearance.
