Construction of the £200 million razor wire barrier was financed by the European Union. It consists of parallel 10-foot fences topped with barbed wire, with regular watchposts and a road running betweem them to accomodate police patrols. Underground cables connect spotlights, noise and movement sensors, and video cameras to a central control booth.
Morocco has objected to the construction of the barrier, as it considers Ceuta to be occupied Moroccan land, and has sought full devolution of the territory since 1975. Critics have also implicated the barrier in the drowning deaths of at least 4,000 people who have died trying to cross the straits of Gibraltar to enter Spain.
Spain: building border fence (http://www.migrationint.com.au/news/liechtenstein/aug_1998-13mn.asp)
Mustafa, the swimming fridge smuggler, and his macabre pact (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/19/wmor19.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/10/19/ixworld.html)
Ceuta is a Spanish exclave in North Africa, located on the northernmost tip of Morocco, on the Mediterranean coast near the Straits of Gibraltar.
Ceuta is dominated by a hill called Monte Hacho, on which there is a fort occupied by the Spanish army.
Ceuta is known officially in Spanish as Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta, the Autonomous City of Ceuta, having a rank between a standard Spanish city and an autonomous community.
Ceuta is a Spanish exclave in North Africa, surrounded by Morocco, on the Mediterranean coast near the Straits of Gibraltar.
Portugal yielded Ceuta to Spain on January 1, 1668, at the signing of a peace treaty at Lisbon between D. Afonso VI of Portugal and Carlos II of Spain, by mediation of Charles II of England.
Ceuta is known officially in Spanish as Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta, the Autonomous City of Ceuta, having a rank between a standard Spanish city and an autonomous community.
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