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Spanish police and residents report widespread sexual violence by illegal migrants in Ceuta, as local authorities struggle to address safety and humanitarian concerns. PULSE POINTS ❓ WHAT HAPPENED: Spanish police officers are raising concerns about reported sexual assaults involving migrant in Ceuta, saying some victims have been targeted near the Temporary Stay Center for Immigrants and dragged to surrounding settlements in the hills and mountains and gang raped. Police and residents have alleged that groups of women and minors avoid straying from areas around police vehicles because they fear being attacked in isolated terrain. 📺 DETAIL: Spanish Civil Guard sources...

Americans pay little attention to Europe, other than to sneer at the Euro-elites and bemoan the fecklessness of European leaders. I am guilty of both sins. Mea culpa. But I am also aware of the coming existential crisis facing Europe as a whole and the European Union quite specifically. It comes in several flavors, and all of them are bitter. First is the shock and embarrassment posed by the influx of 72,000 North African Muslim wannabe migrants into Ceuta, one of two tiny Spanish enclaves in Morocco, just miles away from the Spanish mainland near Gibraltar. The inability—or unwillingness—of the...

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