The Police are deployed in Los Rosales and El Tarajal to remove the last migrants from the streets of Ceuta

This Sunday, the National Police deployed a special device in different peripheral neighborhoods of Ceuta to locate the last migrants who remain on the streets and transfer them to the Temporary Care Center for Foreigners (CATE), from where they will be transferred to the Loma Colmenar camp or may choose to voluntarily return to Morocco.

The operation began at 7:00 a.m. in the Los Rosales neighborhood, where around a hundred agents from the Police Intervention Unit (UIP) have been deployed to locate the migrants who still remained in the area.

The action is part of the plan announced by the Minister of Territorial Policy and coordinator of the single command, Ángel Víctor Torres, which establishes as new priorities the peripheral neighborhoods and the warehouses of the Tarajal industrial estate.

In Los Rosales, agents have been gathering migrants in groups of approximately ten people in one of the alleys located in front of the old prison. From there, they have been transported by buses to the CATE. In total, four vehicles have left the neighborhood, with an approximate capacity of 60 seats each, although none have filled their capacity.

The device has been developed without notable incidents and with the collaboration of the migrants, while the majority of the neighbors were still sleeping, according to police sources. The Local Police have also participated in the intervention, mainly in traffic regulation tasks.

Since the first hour, road traffic has been closed in the section between the González Tablas barracks and the Pantera area, within the framework of the restrictions established to facilitate police deployment.

The first phase concluded at 9:00 am. Once the action in Los Rosales and Benítez was completed, the troops moved to the area around the Tarajal industrial estate, where there was already a police presence from early in the morning and where it was planned to continue with the operation.

In this second area, the migrants were concerned about the possibility of an eviction and the intervention has been more complicated, since some have tried to flee when they noticed the presence of the agents.

The procedure being followed is the same one that was applied during the evictions from the Benítez and Trampolín beaches, as well as in the Guano settlement. The migrants are initially transferred to the CATE, where their affiliation is processed and their subsequent referral to the Loma Colmenar reception camp is determined.

They are also offered the possibility of voluntarily returning to Morocco, an option that is expected to be used by a majority of those transferred based on previous experiences. After the evictions from the beaches, the vast majority chose to return.