Clashes as Morocco forces block access to Ceuta

STORY: Morocco Ceuta Clashes - Clashes as Morocco forces block access to Ceuta

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SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

STORY NUMBER: 4326757

DATELINE: 19 May 2021 - Fnideq

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Fnideq - 19 May 2021

1. Wide of people running as Moroccan security forces try to disperse them from place where they were gathering along route that leads to border with Ceuta

2. People, mostly young men, throwing objects at security forces, who move back

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3. Various of people setting fire to objects in middle of the street, smoke rising

4. Tilt down of smoke rising from barricade on fire in the street, and security forces and people running behind it

5. Close of smoke and people running and throwing objects at security forces who move back

6. Wide of smoke rising from burning barricade and people running

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7. Close of security forces advancing

8. Mid of people running

9. Various of police trucks blocking route to border

STORYLINE:

Clashes erupted near Morocco's border with the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Wednesday as security forces tried to disperse would-be migrants.

Police and troops were deployed to Fnideq to block access to the border.

Dozens of mainly young men gathered in nearby square and clashes erupted when security forces tried to move them away.

Some of the men threw objects at the forces personnel and set fire to a makeshift barricade in the middle of the street.

Police moved back initially, but later dispersed the group.

About 8,000 people have crossed into Ceuta from Morocco in the past two days in an unprecedented influx.

Most of them swam around breakwaters and across the border to reach the Spanish enclave in North Africa.

Over the decades, Spain has built a close relationship with Morocco to crack down on illegal border crossings, but also to increase economic ties and fight extremism.

But on Wednesday, its foreign minister said for the first time in public that Spain believed Morocco loosened its border control to retaliate for Spain having given medical assistance to the head of the liberation movement for Western Sahara, a disputed territory to Morocco's south.

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