Ceuta Border Fence - 2005 Assault

2005 Assault

On September 29, 2005, the border-fence was assaulted by hundreds of migrants simultaneously, grabbing international media attention. Caught between the Spanish rubber bullets and Moroccan gunfire, a number of migrants died (sources put the number of deaths between thirteen and eighteen people) and more than fifty were injured. Some of the dead were wounded by live ammunition; of those, two died at the Spanish side of the fence, apparently shot from the Moroccan positions. The 2005 events at the Ceuta and Melilla border fences are the subject of a documentary film, Victimes de nos richesses.

Since then, migrants have occasionally died while trying to break through the fence.