A local woman in Ceuta has described how she and her mother rescued a 12-year-old girl from being raped by five Moroccan illegal migrants, as the confirmed number of sexual assaults has risen to 16 since the mass invasion at the end of July.
Speaking on Cuatro, the woman said she was at home with her mother at around 2am when they heard screams outside. They went into the street and found five men, whom she said were speaking Arabic, surrounding the child and pulling down her trousers as she screamed.
‘We went to save her. My mother got her out; there were five of them against a 12-year-old girl, a little girl,’ she said. ‘They were raping her in front of my house.’ The family managed to separate the girl from the men and took her to social services. The woman said they feared that if they left the child outside, ‘they would kill her’.
The family also accused the authorities of failing to respond. The woman said she called Spain’s 112 emergency number asking for a police patrol but was told services were saturated and nobody came. Her mother said she later went to a police station to file a complaint, but officers refused to register it and told her to take the girl back to Morocco. Journalist Unai Cano, who highlighted the case on X, similarly accused police of not registering some complaints because they had been overwhelmed.
The account comes amid the increasingly severe security fallout from the 30–31 July mass invasion, when roughly 72,000–80,000 illegal migrants stormed Ceuta from Morocco in little more than a day. Thousands remained in the enclave after the initial storm, leaving police, courts, reception facilities and the child-protection system under extreme pressure.
Ceuta investigating judge Antonio Pastor said on Monday that prosecutors had confirmed 16 sexual assaults since the mass invasion. Only four suspects have been arrested because, in many cases, victims could not identify their attackers.
Pastor said complaints reaching the courts had surged from around 20–30 per day before the invasion to more than 200, describing the situation as ‘overwhelming’. He also said he had seen an ‘exponential increase’ in offences against ‘sexual freedom’ and had personally handled three cases, including the alleged gang rape of a 15-year-old sub-Saharan migrant girl by Maghrebi men.
The pattern had already prompted warnings from the JUPOL police union that groups of Moroccan and other North African illegal migrants were dragging girls into secluded areas in the hills around Ceuta and raping them, often in groups. Many of the victims recorded since the border collapse are themselves migrants and minors.
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