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Calle residencial de Ceuta al anochecer con edificios de viviendas
Una calle de un barrio residencial de Ceuta al caer la noche. · Imagen generada por EPM

Ten minors detained after clashes in Ceuta

National Police detained ten minors after two clashes at the Victoria and Paraíso centers in Ceuta, leaving four workers with minor injuries.

--- The context --- Ceuta has lived under sustained strain since the mass arrival of migrants on July 30 and 31. That influx stretched the reception network and left temporary centers under constant pressure, with high occupancy and staff pushed to the limit. --- The facts --- According to the National Police, officers detained ten minors from two reception centers after two disturbances in the early hours, with damage to furniture and four workers with minor injuries. The episodes took place at Victoria and Paraíso and forced a rapid deployment to restore order. At Victoria, seven residents detained after a fight account for the first episode: they threw chairs, caused breakage and left two guards with minor injuries, according to the medical report attached to the complaint. At Paraíso, one young person allegedly persuaded two other minors to attack staff, and a guard and an auxiliary worker suffered minor injuries. --- The positions --- Workers and organizations insist that saturation explains part of the conflict and demand resources matched to real occupancy. The investigation into both centers remains open, while staff stress that without reinforcements per shift it is very difficult to guarantee the safety of residents and employees alike. --- What remains unknown --- The measures the administration will adopt after this latest night are still unknown, as is any timetable for reinforcements. Nor has there been clarification of the proceedings against the detained minors or of decisions about their situation in the centers, a sensitive point because they are minors under institutional guardianship. --- Unanswered questions --- How many professionals per shift were on duty in the early hours at Victoria and at Paraíso? What immediate measures will be applied to reduce the saturation denounced by workers and organizations? When will the results of the open investigation into both disturbances be made public? --- EPM analysis --- The precedent of September 28 at El Cortijo, in Loma Margarita, where ten minors were detained after assaulting educators who refused to let them go out to smoke, leaving two educators with blows and scratches, shows a repeating pattern. Comisiones Obreras then asked the Minors Area in writing for more hiring per shift and ratios adjusted to real occupancy. In the opposite direction, Amnesty International says it has gathered 50 testimonies of torture, ill treatment and degrading treatment attributed to military personnel against migrants since July: 28 recent cases, 18 cases after the Defense Ministry announced opening investigations, and at least 13 minors affected, complaints presented as testimonies, not as judicially proven facts. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, Ceuta faces two crises that confront each other and neither admits simplifications: saturated centers where workers and minors live together under pressure that is already leaving people injured, and serious complaints against military personnel that demand an independent and transparent investigation. Protecting staff, protecting minors and clarifying every complaint with evidence are simultaneous obligations of the state, not options to choose between according to whichever narrative suits each interested party at any given moment.
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