(AFP) Exhausted and ashen-faced, Moroccan teenager Amal waited all night to join thousands who dream of reaching Europe through a tiny Spanish enclave on North Africa’s Mediterranean coast.
“We know it’s an adventure but death doesn’t scare me. It’s dying poor, here, that’s what scares me,” said the out-of-school and jobless 18-year-old who was turned back by Moroccan guards at dawn.
She had rushed from the nearby village of Martil after reading on Facebook that “people were making it through to (the enclave of) Ceuta without getting arrested” by Moroccan border guards.
In an unprecedented influx Monday, at a time of high tension between Rabat and Madrid, thousands of would-be migrants reached the enclave by swimming or walking at low tide from neighbouring Moroccan beaches.
