Ceuta: What triggered mass migrant crossing?

France 24 reports that a massive influx of migrants crossed into Ceuta, the Spanish territory on Africa's northern coast. The scale was striking: the arrivals were equivalent to roughly seventy percent of Ceuta's resident population. In the days leading up, social media had been circulating posts encouraging people to make the crossing. As initial reports reached communities in Morocco, more people headed north, hoping to reach European Union territory through the same route—though France 24 says what originally triggered the surge remains unclear.

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