Violence breaks out in Ceuta as migrant crisis continues

The socialist-led government of Pedro Sánchez has appealed for calm and accused Vivas's People's Party (PP) and the far-right Vox of stoking the tensions. José María Figaredo, a member of Congress for Vox, is being investigated for a possible hate crime after saying, soon after the migrants' arrival, that they should be "hunted down, one by one".Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska told a congressional committee: "We have heard during these weeks rhetoric and comments that contribute to the stigmatisation of immigrants and which feed social division at a moment when what we need is responsibility and statesmanship."Javier Celaya, who represents Ceuta in Congress for the PP, accused the government of treating "the invaders as victims when the real victims are us, the people of Ceuta".On Friday, all the parties in the Ceuta local assembly signed a declaration condemning violence.Earlier this week, the government centralised management of the situation, overriding the local authority, after criticism that it had been slow to respond.Defence Minister Margarita Robles also apologised to those in Ceuta who "may have felt, or who even still feel, abandoned or not sufficiently cared"...