- In a matter of days, once-pristine beaches in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta have been reduced to open-air dumps and disease-ridden camps occupied by thousands of illegal migrants who refused to leave after the mass invasion from Morocco.
Locals describe feces, urine, garbage, and makeshift shacks covering the sand. Contagious illnesses are spreading. Mass brawls with bladed weapons have broken out.
What was a quiet coastal stretch has become a third-world encampment on European soil.
Footage circulating widely shows Trampolín Beach and surrounding stretches completely taken over. Residents report they can no longer bring their children to the shore.
"We can't take our kids to the beach, we can't go. They are occupied, they are full of shacks, people are eating there, throwing food, it's full of clothes, feces, urine," one local said.
Infectious diseases including scabies, tuberculosis, and impetigo are rising sharply. Another resident warned of a "health catastrophe," noting WhatsApp groups filled with photos of children suffering from these conditions.
Ceuta University Hospital has responded by opening an emergency disaster wing with more than 30 beds.
Violence has followed. A mass brawl erupted among sub-Saharan migrants at Trampolín Beach, leaving several injured with bladed weapons. Videos capture the chaos of men fighting amid the trash-strewn shoreline that once drew local families.
The human cost extends beyond pollution and fights. In the weeks after the invasion, health sources at Ceuta University Hospital treated at least five girls under 14 for alleged rapes, plus an underage boy, according to reports.
Many of these minors have been sleeping on the streets due to shelter shortages. The emergency department has been handling 300 to 400 migrant patients a day while operating with pre-crisis staffing.
Moroccan riot police have blocked hundreds of migrants attempting to storm the border into Ceuta, two weeks after 72,000 people swept into the Spani
