WATCH protesters smash politician’s car during Ceuta migrant unrest

An angry crowd of locals mistook occupants of a car as pro-immigration aid workers from northern Spain Furious anti-immigration protesters attacked a car carrying a local politician in the troubled Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Sunday. Locals, whose communities have been overrun by thousands of illegal migrants invading from Morocco, believed the vehicle carried a member of a pro-migrant activist group.Footage shows protesters surrounding the vehicle, kicking and striking it, pelting it with eggs, and smashing its windows as police tried to hold them back. Riot police opened fire to disperse the crowd, multiple media outlets have reported.The crowd had gathered at the port awaiting the Pamplona-based Negu Gorriak/Derecho a Techo (Right to a Roof) group, which had planned to travel to Ceuta to distribute humanitarian aid to migrants and protest alleged “violence” against them by the authorities.Instead, the car carried local assembly deputy Julia Ferreras, Gaza Flotilla activist and lawyer Rafael Borrego, and UN human-rights lawyer Sofía Cánovas. Borrego told elDiario.es that protesters mistakenly identified him as one of the expected activists. Europa Press said that some protesters ...