Spain leapt to deflect attention from its open border crisis on Monday by asserting the unified revulsion at Ceuta crisis was so overwhelming it implies a conspiracy among the “international reactionary forces” to “spread lies and fake news”.
The Spanish city of Ceuta, an isolated exclave clinging to the north African coast surrounded by Morocco on one side and the Mediterranean Sea on the other shot again to global attention last week in just the latest in a years-long series of border incursions. The largest of its type yet, local authorities said between 50-60,000 people swam into Spanish — and therefore European Union — territory from Morocco in just 24...
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