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Spanish PM blames traffickers, migrants for deaths at border
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MADRID, 29 June 2022, (TON): Spain’s prime minister is defending the way Moroccan and Spanish police repelled migrants last week as they tried to cross the shared border into the north African enclave of Melilla, depicting the attempt in which at least 23 people died as an attack on Spain’s borders.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said “we must remember that many of these migrants attacked Spain’s borders with axes and hooks.”
“We are talking about an attempt to assault the fence that was evidently carried out in an aggressive way, and therefore what Spain’s state security forces and Moroccan guards did was defend Spain’s borders.”
Authorities in Morocco have blamed the deaths on a stampede of people that formed early Friday as hundreds attempted to scale or break through the 12-meter iron double fence.
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