Moroccan police arrested 111 individuals, including 109 sub‑Saharan migrants and two Moroccan citizens, after they attempted to cross into Spain’s Ceuta on Saturday. The incident followed a previous mass crossing two weeks earlier in which more than 72,000 migrants entered Ceuta, resulting in at least 96 deaths and heightened EU tensions. Spanish authorities increased security, deploying over 500 additional officers and installing a maritime barrier.

Police used tear gas to disperse groups gathered on hills near the border, and hundreds of officers returned from the area outside Fnideq. Spanish interior minister Fernando Grande‑Marlaska said the reinforcements would remain until normalcy was restored and that irregular entrants would not be permitted to stay, travel to mainland Spain, or obtain legal status except in rare cases of extreme vulnerability. About 5,000 migrants remained in Ceuta, many sheltering under makeshift bamboo structures on El Trampolin beach.

Rabat said it was monitoring social‑media posts calling for another mass crossing on August 15 and warned it would prosecute organizers. Witnesses reported that some migrants bypassed security checkpoints via mountain routes, while authorities prevented others from boarding trains and buses bound for northern Moroccan cities.