The 'invasion' from Morocco surpassed the population of Ceuta: more than 100,000 people entered in 24 hours

First, the figure of 80,000 people was handled by the Ministry of the Interior. Later it was publicly admitted that there could be more. The autonomous government of Ceuta, logically at work, warned at some point that "it could be more than 90,000 people," as the mayor-president of the enclave, Juan Jesús Vivas, commented to this newspaper.

But a closed and concrete figure was never given; Unusually, three months after the massive assault on the border, the central government, constitutionally charged with protecting the territorial integrity of the country, never communicated a total number of Maghrebs and sub-Saharans who broke the El Tarajal border on July 30 and 31, and de facto invaded the Spanish city (and never recognized as such by Morocco), despite the fact that the Ceuta affair, at least until the tragedy of the Urda trains (Toledo), monopolized public conversation for at least two months.

At most, an entry figure of 72,000 people was managed, and it was presumed that "90%" had returned to Morocco in the first hours after the jump.

Now, after the entry of Justice, with the judge of the National Court María Tardón, a realistic figure is finally beginning to be drawn of how many people rushed over the border and entered Spain, in the face of the forced passivity of the Civil Guard, in charge of arresting them.

More than 100,000 people carried out the assault, a figure that the Government never provided, and which is evident after the report provided on October 27 to Judge María Tardón, who is investigating the events.

Until that day, a total of 88,146 people who had carried out the assault returned to Morocco, according to exact data from the Benemérita until October 27.

To that figure we must add several more that bring the number to at least over 100,000 people, and that is always in the most conservative estimate of people who can currently remain in Ceuta. The autonomous Government speaks of 14,000 people who would still be in the place - both in the streets and in the El Tarajal industrial estate and in the six resources raised by the State - which, added to those 88,146, would bring the total to above 102,000.

The most conservative calculation, in any case, would have to add to those 88,146 immigrants, first the 8,000 adults that the National Police estimates, on the field in Ceuta, who are still there, as EL MUNDO has been able to gather. And, in addition, there are the minors: 3,688 welcomed by the autonomous city today, a figure made public this Friday by the vice president, Alejandro Ramírez, plus the 288 already sent to the Peninsula, all of them coming from the assault of July 30-31.