Walls of Shame - Fortress Europe: The Spanish-Moroccan border
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- The city of Ceuta is the southernmost outpost of fortress Europe. Yet it is on mainland Africa - opposite the Straights of Gibraltar. It is one of the last vestiges of Spanish rule in northern Morocco.
Madrid insists it will never relinquish control and has cordoned it off - prompting comparison with other walls of shame.
However, there are growing demands for a more constructive approach to the problem of illegal immigration. One man has already started a grass-roots initiative that proved much more successful than walls and fences.
But within the town of Ceuta is another divide - a social division that is religious and economic - between the wealthy Christian Spaniards and their poorer Muslim compatriots of Moroccan descent.
This episode of Walls of Shame first aired in November 2007.
Update: 2015 was the deadliest year on record for migrants and refugees attempting to get into Europe. Over 3,700 people died - the majority on sea crossings between Libya and Italy or Turkey and Greece.
Almost ten years ago, when the film first aired, the number of migrant deaths on Spanish territory had reached its peak. The world's media only started to take notice when the drowned bodies of African migrants began washing ashore on the tourist beaches of the Spanish Canary islands.
Spain's response was to stiffen its border security, but despite all the effort and expense spent on beefing up its borders, migration is on the rise.
Migrants, hoping to be among the lucky few to reach the other side, have often rushed the border fence - sometimes with tragic consequences. On one occasion in Ceuta in 2014, at least 14 African migrants drowned when trying to swim their way from Morocco to Spain.
Those who made it alive were deported back to Morocco, on the other side of the wall.
Today this no longer an issue isolated in a faraway Spanish enclave. The number of people hoping to reach Europe has swelled by a huge wave of refugees from wars in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Thousands of people are testing Europe's borders, by the sea from Libya to Italy, and from Turkey to Greece, and then continuing over land to Europe's more affluent countries.
In response Europe is building more walls. Today there are five existing fences across the continent, with at least another six either in construction or scheduled.
Most of these walls separate EU nations from countries outside the European Union, but some fences are planned between member states - a move that's against the spirit of the EU, according to the EU's foreign policy chief.
"Europe was built on the idea that walls have to come down. It was built on the idea of coming together. Of overcoming differences. Of united. Walls are never the solution," said Federica Mogherini, the EU High Representative, Foreign Affairs.
Without a political solution in sight, migrants and refugees remain undeterred, taking on increasingly dangerous routes into Europe.
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I want ask a question to Al Jazeera, what the wealthy Arab nations like UAE, Kuwait or Saudi Arabia are doing to deal with this refugee crisis??? Have they accepted even a single Syrian refugee?? Why to put all the burden of refugees only on European nations?? Why?
Saudi wont accept syrians because syrians are majority sunnis and saudi shias
@@pa6366 Saudi is Sunnite.
@@pa6366 And Europe is christian, another religion, so that is no excuse
G7 is the objective, the civilization in process of destruction
Many Arab Nations have accepted hundreds of thousands of refugees and they donate BILLIONS in AID. The burden falls on Europe for colonialsing the world and taking Natural resources from the country's that the refugees come from. Maybe you should take a lesson in History and educate yourself with what Europe has done around the world for thousands of years.
The Spaniards have several centuries of reasons to keep the Muslims out of Spain. And I understand them.
yeah but we can accept some of them, more than we had. Politicians swear to accept a number of imigrants and they accept less than 27% of what they promised. ANd the wall has like knifes and hurting wire, it is not only a wall
Shut up you inbreed
*ANd the wall has like knifes and hurting wire, it is not only a wall*
If they don't cross it then they don't end up being cut or injured due to it.
wall of shame?? wtf.
That wall was the best investment Spain ever did.
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Yes, let's have an open border with Africa and the Middle East. Nothing bad will come from that, right?
I think same bro you look like a nice guy keep it up
Im spanish and we have borders, but they jump in a massive way, the guards can´t catch everyone. Our governments are traitors like in any European country and we live a dictatorship in which the citizen has no right to choose nothing...
Send these blacks to iran, syria yemen, saudi, jordan, labanon, iraq.
Unless you rebel and install a nationalist government.
@@drk7313 Ala tira que paridas has dicho
Also, I'm not sure why Al Jazeera calls Ceuta part of "northern Morocco". Ceuta is a part of Spain as much as Madrid.
neuralvibes
Yeah
However the majority of its residents are moroccans
Not true, the majority are Spanish
No whit people
@@g111g 45%are maroccans, and yall should get back to where you came from
It's the same as Britain owning Gibraltar.
Walls are needed. It's not a bad thing.
Kasper Vestergaard spain eat morocco in 1 day
+kamikaze234 ? I hear that the first time. What do you mean by it?
The man from the Muslim Union needs to understand that this is not a Muslim vs Christian issue.
What about the Muslim majority countries in the region and their lack of recognition of other religions other from Islam?
J Groenveld governments of Muslim countries R run by the west my friend ! Religion is irrelevant in 2019
Al Jazeera you're very biased, plus whoever interprets and translates the conversations into English is doing a horrific job. Most of the information is left out, information very important to the video and its theme.
+RadicalSecularist walls of shame is a title of documentary films moron. They have more video's about this topics
See, I had a feeling that was the case. That is awful.
WALL OF JUSTISE
Justice*
Sone- THE TOWER OF JUSTICE. At 4ft it's still two short. Europe should make it 10 ft and think of building a concrete wall like in Israel.
Will you call it 'Walls of Shame" if it prevents Spaniards from rushing into Morocco?
Thank God there is an ocean between us.
AlJazeera where is the video of the Moroccan wall of shame build in the Sahara?
What's shameful is the things that these people bring to Europe.
al jazeers is making it muslims against christians its not its moroccans against spanjards
Tell me...
***** lol that's shut a lie 😂😂😂😂
+Dani Neira That's actually right, I'm currently studying it. Believe it or not
well I don't know where you are studying because sources are biased from the view of scholars in Spain it was an invasion not a liberation, while I agree in certain ways life improved, people still only converted to Islam because it made life easier. I've yet to see a single source point out that anyone is Spain asked to be "liberated"... not even from the moors perspective
The key point is that the motivation to invade largely Christian and Jewish Spain was based on both the wealth from the initial conquest and the wealth generated by the jizayh tax on the population that's what shows in pretty much every book on the subject
Cry me a river. Europe needs more walls.
NEO NAZIS FAILED ZION EURO TRASH is becoming like NK or fake tel Aviv projects lands instead.
slaves of Brussels marches on too ALLAH AKBAR.
@Al Jazeera : How about a documentary on treatment of immigrant workers in Qatar or middle east in general. I know for a fact that animals are treated better in middle east than immigrant workers from India, nepal, bangladesh and phillipines
Maybe Qatar should take these poor migrants.
Arabs will never do that we all know but always blames Europe
The premiss of this report seems to be that Europe has a burden it must carry.
From where ? How ?
Do they got money to buy that type of boat
At the begining of the vídeo ?
country can fence their border what is the problem??
EU is the problem.
I saw more Indians then Arab,
What would Indians do in Africa?
In Cueta muslims and Christians live peacefully
Viva España !
Viva morocco 🇲🇦
+Yassine IJassin Viva el Sáhara 🇪🇭
Viva el Sahara Marroqui
+barack brahms Como si existiera 😂😂😂👌
VIVA Æ
That wall is miss something, gun turrets!!!
Kelly Lister 😂😂😂
thank you ALj
The walls are too thin and too low. We should have land mines and electrified fences in addition.
👍!
The true shame is very small.
and Arabie saoudite, Qatar, Koweït, Oman et Emirats arabes unis, how much migrants they took? medias never speak about that - WHY THIS OBSESSIVE FOCUS ON EUROPE ?
sylvie evin propaganda
spain is a democracy, i arabic wolrd gay people is killed, womans hasn't rights...
Sylvie- These are economic refugees and rerrorists that is why they choose Europe and not the muslim world.Ask yourself why is it that some black Africans are going to work in The middle east and Afghanistan while the arabs are fleeing those very countries. Europe should not accept any more refugees and asylum seekers especially muslims
they can be called walls of shame only if they are willfully abandoned by the defenders.
Viva Europa!
Why you guys call these illegal immigtant "muslim"?
Bruhh...not all of thrm muslim, and most of these people aren't morrocan, they're sub-saharan african wich is also christian as well
Al Jazeera, Qatar never opened borders for refugees. So stop blaming Europe. Thanks
Countries have to serve and accommodate their own: we can't have Europe, Australia and N.A. take in the whole world. African and Middle Eastern governments need to take responsibility for the dismal conditions of their citizens. Make life livable for them.
When I asked my Spanish Tutor to enlighten me on footage I'd seen about 'Las Campanadas', he really didn't want to talk about the issue......a side of Spain that many people are not even aware of 😢
I totally agree with ya guys,due to the danger and chaos is emerging recently around the world every country has the right to worry,protect their borders and their own people.
Might this sort of trades benefit the both sides.But as a Moroccan I still highly accept the fact that Morocco still has a huge challenge to do
With its natural resources are limited and fragile and with a low education access to rural areas.also if the country doesn't create more jobs and social and territorial balance
we always gonna have a serious issues with illegal migrants trying to cross the borders for a better life.In my opinion plus the hard work that needs to be done we should focus less on religion.
life improvement is here not till the second life ,must change your destiny here and to the lady below Fran Sandling with all due respect we know you have all the right to protect yourself and your country but there is no reason to throw insult and accusing people of rape
.that doesn't takes us anywhere it just perpetrate hates and conflicts.You just need to walk into others shoes to understand.
And yet every single producer and writer at this propaganda channel will have their own "walls of shame".... we usually just call them doors but whatever......smh.....
A better life? Of what? Living off other people.
more fences more walls
What about population explosion..?
Qatar should take them in.
isn't it wall of shame that Saudi Arabia didn't took any Syrian refugees?
11:50 Berlin wall kept the people in, not the outsiders out.
An arab news medium and objective reporting ... is like trusting s snake not to strangle its pray
Spain is Christian so whats the issue.. Islam is not a Spanish religion.. get over yourself .. no need to celebrate what’s not yours .. but they can always go back to Morocco right .
The comments on this video are so ironic
Am mining my business on this one !!!
AFTER WATCHING THIS DOCUMENTARY, I AM PERPLEXED BETWEEN THE IDEA OF OPENING UP EUROPEAN BORDERS AND OPENING UP EUROPEANS' HEARTS. ANYWAY, IMPRESSIVE DOCUMENTARY. DO YOU AGREE?
Morocco should compensate Spain for former invasions !!!
Here's a non-edgy comment
Shooting rubber bullets? Yeah right
Very racist very biased film... :(
World Political report-Al Jazeera always supports these terrorists in the name of migrants fleeing persecution making them look like victims. The West is the victim as these guys have one goal which is to destroy allied civilisation. It's a fact and they know it. My request to them is please leave the children behind as they suffer too much during these worthless quests to reach Europe.
Secondly,that worthless Spanish guy who found corpses in the beach and decided to go to Morrocco to educate villagers is just wasting his time and private donors money. His silly theory that 'it's all in mind' is astonishingly stupid. You cannot change the mind of a pre conceived fanatic.
War in India? When was this?
Walls do work. I've seen it.
It's a beautiful, wonderful wall of peace and security. It's much better to build walls than to wage wars...
Al Jazeera when are you going to talk about the 6500 dead workers in Qatar?
More like walls of glory.
We have to remember there's reasons some countries are wealthy and some are not people ethics how they live civil.
The thing that I cannot understand is that another human being searching for a better life on a different part of earth that none of us humans created, yet we still feel the need that we own the land that we’re on. It’s very sad cause you did not create that land you claiming to own
It’s sad hopefully Spain will change
So you don’t own your own place as well....let anybody come to your land
Hey where do you live? I think I will travel to your home and stay there for some weeks because you didn’t create what you own, and give me your ohone because you didn’t create it
Ok now do that logic with your home
why don t the golf states open their borders , or at least start treating their own immigrants like human beings
the wall is good.. keep the wall
Viva Espana - lets keep the unwanted out !
look at the boats the migrants are using... ??
Morocco should attract melia to capture hole area .it's belongs to Morocco not Spain. Spain u r lucky u don't have area in asia if u have u would got insantan karma .
I'm getting sick of these people. Maybe not right but a better life?. What about making life horrible for the citizens of those countries. Stay in your own countries. Work on making them better. Leave the West alone. They have done their part.
waw!
all males!! wtf!!
It is because males typically take the big risk of smuggling themselves out of their country and once they get to the 1st world nation they work and send money back home allowing the family to live a good life in their home country and perhaps eventually come over. This is why men typically go first.
I pray you be a refugee some day then you can feel what is like then you can be able to ask that same question
I pray you be a refugee some day then you can feel what is like then you can be able to ask that same question
All males who only come to rape white women
So much hatred and ignorance, instead of complaining you should be helping.
The Immigration problems are creating far right governments and ideology in europe which is a very bad thing. Do you really think that's a good future?
You should be ashamed of yourself!
TheRealLieutenant you are quiet wrong those right wing movenents will unite europe. to unify many terretories into one you ll always need a common enemy, sry for that. i guess what we are seeing is the beginning of a european country since it is becomming us vs them
Where are the women
create strong wall!!
why don't you take them in Qatar? you guys are the richest country in the world when it comes to GDP per capita and you only have a quarter of a million citizens but you do have anywhere from what; two to four million slaves. so you have anywhere between 8 and 15 * your population and undocumented workers which modern day slaves really are inappropriate word for them.
Need a great big wall across Europe !
This is crazy I'm Haitain and I understand some of the word that they are saying.
They speak French in Morocco
Love from Florida. My Haitian student's are the best!
@@annaw982 only 13milion poeple speak frensh
@@naamloos5535 "Only 13 million speak French." "Only"
@@flawyerlawyertv7454 yeah? Wich is a minority, the comment said that we speak frensh in morocco, wich is for the majority not true
It's all young men. And you have the nerve to call them "refugees". Unbelievable.
You have to go back.
The alt right swarmed the video. What a surprise.
please more of these walls!!!!
That 'wall of Shame' should be stronger and so this invasion would stop.
Um, some have allegiance to Morocco,erm go back then.
Crusade!!!
Let them go to Saudi Arabia
Why
@@ilyass78877 lots of space, few people there, rich country social and religious arrangement would be closer to what they are used to. Why Europe?
Why is he speaking french
French along with Arabic are the official languages of Morocco. Morocco was once a French colony.
Regardless of religion we are all equal and all strive for a better life for ourselves and our family.
Cool. Unfortunately not everyone thinks that way
One side people struggling other side people celebrating
I thought Morocco has an King,so it is an kingdom,Is n't he rich enough to take care of his own people?No need to pray for his prosperity.Or is the so called King also throwing his poor worthless jail criminals out to Europe.
hedidit
Did you see the documentary
They are sub saharian africans
Did you even watch the video? They are mostly from Nigeria, and we want our land back
if ceuta will open his border , will be "erased" , come on , don't be naive
Why they came African border by crossing the sea Spanish must not cross African see
Wall of Shame.!! Whose shame it would be? Shame for those nations who could not provide the basics needs - shelter, food, security etc. of it's citizens..
Walls of reason , security and law !!!
Similar like Palestine lol
Just came here to laugh at the title
+Sweeping Sweeper yeah, nothing wrong with building walls, they are there for a reason; to keep land safe.
Why Europe o silly me benefits everything free l really am a dip stick Jackie
no shame here
no1s ashamed of the walls!!
Birds of the same feather should fly together
I thought Allah was the salvation of the Muslims not immigration.
DEBORAH-There God Allah is The Minister of Immigration
0:32 all young men, thats the problem! Keep them out they cause trouble in our contries!
I hate this neiberhood who call spain
long life morocco
Yes, those words are so grateful especially when it comes from someone who can't thank all the tolerance and how good Spain is with them
@@javiruiz9876 lmaaoo stealing land is not good, of we want we can end spain in 1 year
@@naamloos5535 what are you going to end? You can’t even make your citizens want to stay in your country
Look at Moscow better still walk down the main street, spoken Russian language is almost non existent and culture intervention is bringing it down non stop!
So good in documenting other countries bad stories yet in Qatar many immigrants are dying, others underpaid because of their selfish qatari employers
Invasion of EUROPE The Great fall of EUROPE
If Europe and the United States would keep their noses out of other countries business, they wouldn't have to whine and complain about having to take care of refugees from those countries. You made the mess. You solve it. And if you can't stop your governments from creating these crises , then get some guts and overthrow it .
It doesn't work like that, that doesn't give them the right to come here so crazily.
Bullshit.