For some it was a beach Sunday, on August 1, perhaps the first 48 hours of summer holidays. Castell de Ferro Beach, in the province of Granada, was bursting. It was two in the afternoon and in the sand there was not a soul, as observed in a dozen videos that have flooded social networks, and that show how a vessel, not those that are dangerously approaching the coasts so that their crews take a dip, but scared, approached the hundreds of bathers. And migrants jumped into the sea. It was not difficult to distinguish them because to avoid burning in the sun they were covered to the dolls, just contrary to many of the towels. And they ran disoriented, stumbling with the umbrellas. And nine ended up biting the sand.
It is likely that the boat pilot did not foresee that upon arrival, instead of running with police or civil guard, he would meet bathers apparently convinced that they could replace the authorities and stop migrants, for indignation of other summers. In a video recorded by a woman, of the various who registered the bathers, an orange swimsuit is observed to submit another lying mouth, knee in the back, while she yells at him: “Leave the little girl! What little shame!”
Other summers made videos of landing and migrants running disoriented in search of a safe place. Nine of them ended up being held by some bathers, who threw themselves against them without waiting for the authorities to come.
This Monday, the Government Subdelegate in Granada, José Antonio Montilla, has assured that there were nine migrants arriving at this beach – although in the videos of the boat they seem to be many more – and that they have been transferred to the Temporary Attention Center of Foreigners (CATE), where they will remain “while their order of expulsion of the national territory is processed”.
Montilla also tried to explain that this has been an isolated case. That “the arrival of migrants to the beaches of Granada is being very scarce in 2025”. Sunday was, according to the sub -delegate, “the second boat” that reaches the Granada coasts “in everything that goes for a year.”
The last balance of the Interior Ministry in immigration matters emphasizes that (from January to July), 32.2% have declined over last year. That the Canarian route has fallen 46%, Ceuta’s 77% and Melilla have only entered nine. The data, which account for immigrants registered until July 31, warn of a rise in arrivals to the Spanish coasts and.
However, these data take into account vessels. And from Ceuta, the authorities warn of a much higher figure: in recent days they have intercepted more than 70 young people crossing the line. Without these figures to appear in any statistics, the local press warns, which mentions the Civil Guard, which highlights it as “the most reckless route”, to which women and children have joined, not only Moroccans, but of a dozen nationalities. Each time they move away from the coast to avoid being intercepted by the authorities on one side and another of the border. And every time they are in danger.
The handful of men who jumped out of the patera this Sunday, who ran in terror of the men who were even playing the shovels and now wanted to retain them, has also become one of the ultra -right flags in Spain. The same one that has pulled in other parts of the country persecutions even against those who already live in it. As was the, in Alcalá de Henares (Community of Madrid) and in.
Granada beach has been the last summer bastion of a handful of ultras. This time, as happened in the Murcia town, they were also a minority, according to the shouts of reprobation that are heard in the videos. In the same networks where these days Vox disseminated these images to accuse the government of orchestrating a “effect called”, others had already put a title to the images of the orange swimsuit man: “The facades of the beach.”
