Border control theme
Which EU citizen will be the first to point out that North Africa and the Middle East don't have any forests to burn down?
Thousands have crossed the border into Spanish enclave. Thousands crossed the border from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Thursday. The newspaper El Mundo reports that as many as 20,000 people may have crossed into Ceuta. According to police sources that El Mundo has spoken with, the Spanish border authorities are helpless – and can only 'watch.' – It's total chaos. It's impossible to say exactly how many are involved, but thousands are crossing the border, says Rachid Sbihi, head of the police union of the Guardia Civil, to AP.
In clips circulating on social media, thousands can be seen running – and swimming – across the border. Mostly the crowds are moving over a breakwater at the border. According to El País, thousands of waiting migrants have formed a five-kilometer-long line to get across the border. According to AP's freelance photographer on site, it's mainly young men. See the report on SVT News.
Volunteer Oscar: 'I have to protect my country' Thousands of firefighters are working to put out the large forest fire that has been raging in France for over a week. Helping them is a whole network of volunteers who provide water to their firefighting vehicles. Farmers, students, and engineers – it's a mixed group of French people stepping in to make the firefighters' job easier. One of them is Oscar Lescouzères. He studies business economics at the University of Bordeaux but has now returned to the place where he was born to help out. 'Everything is burned down. Houses, cars, the forest – everything. I've never seen anything like this before,' he says. Watch the segment on SVT News.