AMERICANALMANAC (Charles McAdams) - Migrants chant 'Allahu Akbar' during violent clashes with Spanish police in Ceuta
Roughly 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta in a single day, and the chaos that followed, deadly stampedes, street clashes, and a European political crisis, shows no sign of ending. Footage from Ceuta captured crowds of migrants raising fists and chanting "Allahu Akbar", Arabic for "God is Great", as […] The post Migrants chant 'Allahu Akbar' during violent clashes with Spanish police in Ceuta appeared first on American Almanac .
Roughly 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta in a single day, and the chaos that followed, deadly stampedes, street clashes, and a European political crisis, shows no sign of ending. Footage from Ceuta captured crowds of migrants raising fists and chanting "Allahu Akbar", Arabic for "God is Great", as Spanish police officers armed with batons charged into a demonstration that had turned violent. In one clip, a wounded man was carried away wrapped in a blanket while the chanting continued around him. The confrontation took place on a Sunday, days after the initial mass crossing overwhelmed the small Spanish territory that sits on the Moroccan coast. The scale of the surge is staggering. Tens of…Open