Riot police officers stand in front of the portable toilets of a makeshift migrant camp in Ceuta at night. Riot police escorted firefighters through the camp on the night of October 3 to put out the fires that people living there use to cook their food. Thousands of migrants, most of them young Moroccan men, have been living in makeshift settlements in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta since a mass arrival at the end of July 2026 set off a migration and political crisis. Ceuta Spain - ZUMAs392 20261003_zip_s392_005

October 3, 2026, Ceuta, Ceuta, Spain: Riot police officers stand in front of the portable toilets of a makeshift migrant camp in Ceuta at night. Riot police escorted firefighters through the camp on the night of October 3 to put out the fires that people living there use to cook their food. Thousands of migrants, most of them young Moroccan men, have been living in makeshift settlements in the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta since a mass arrival at the end of July 2026 set off a migration and political crisis. Ceuta Spain - ZUMAs392 20261003_zip_s392_005