After being all morning in communication with the immigrants who passed to Ceuta, we can testify the following facts:
At three o'clock in the morning a group of twenty Congoleses and some Costamarfileños crossed the two fences that separates Morocco from Ceuta. With them there have been other immigrants from different origins. We could hear people talking in some South-accent Castellano, supposively Guardia Civil, who gave them orders like: "Keep sitting!"; "Don't you move from there!". We also could hear in some moment giving the afirmation: "this fucking nigger!". About two hours after the first phone call, the immigrants still have been waiting for any medical care and we could heard them shout and weeping, calling: "The Red Cross should some!".
At another tense moment on the phone the immigrants and asylum seekers said to us that they want expel them and are opening the small door of the fence. In particular we spoke with one Costamarfileño, who is member of the rebellious forces of Alasane Ouatara, which is into war against the official government of the Ivory Coast. This man begins to shout for political asylum, repeats it three times in French and two times in Spanish. Then a choir, Costamarfileños that give him company, starts to ask for asylum by voice. After that they cut of the communication. When we got back to them they are stopped by Moroccan police after beeing deported irregular and illegalmente due to the small door in the fence by the Guardia Civil. Their destiny will be once more the Algerian border. While being expelled in an irregular and illegal way to Morocco, this group meets a group of twenty Congoleses. Some of them already asked for political asylum on Moroccan territory. After recognizing the brutal way people get searched in Morocco since two weeks, that asylum seekers have been tortured and deported to Algeria, they decided to solicitate asylum in Europe.
From the testimonies of the immigrants in Ceuta who entered the last dawn we gathered the following:
The first group, that could enter by passing the fence crossing the first wire, heared bursts of bullets due to Guardia Civil. "Some of those bullets have been shut into the air like they always do, but others went into the body. We saw people falling on our side. The group that came behind us got scared and turned back. I don't feel confused about the deads, the shootings have been real". A woman Costamarfileña lost her almost three months old baby, supposivly due to the use of anti-riot material (this they told us in a confused way and we are looking for the mother to clarify it). What we can confirm is, that the mother, beeing pregnant eight and a half months, tried to pass to Ceuta while swimming. When she arrived at the beach she has been arrested by the Guardia Civil and was brought back to Morocco in irregular and illegal way. The woman asked for political asylum and medical care on the Spanish territory, but the Guardia Civil did not even listen to her. The fact that at least three of five bodies have been wounded by bullets. The story of a second group of immigrants, who finds the Moroccan forces aligned in front of the fence with the guns pointed out and shooting. Only two persons of that group are in Ceuta today. The immigrants report how in a first moment the avalanche goes towards the wire fence provoced by the Moroccan military. In the hospital of Tetuán are at least eight wounded, two of them very grave and six of them are wounded due to impacts of rubber balls, antiriot material used by the Guardia Civil.
From our talks with the immigrants who are in the forest of Bel Younech, at the border to Ceuta, we came to the following conclusions:
"Everything seemed to have been prepared so something like this could happen this day. Never in Ceuta, since I know the camp, we had this kind of attacks. We told the people to wait some days and lets talk and then the group, that wanted to leave, decided it has to be this day. Also there have been persons that didn t live in the camp, who started to give directions to the people. They came from outside, from Rabat or other camps. And all of the sudden the Moroccan police entered the woods and the only thing the people could do was to go forward to the wire fence. It was like everything has been provoced by something far from us." From this dawn there are permanent raids in the forest, people hide in groups of three or four persons in the weeds, they have no food, cannot sleep, have no drinking water... The situation of the childs and women is very desparate.