The moment dozens of migrants stormed into Spain

Dozens of migrants were pictured storming a beach in southern Spain on Friday as confused sunbathing nudists watched the remarkable scenes unfolding.

Dramatic photos taken on the beach at Tafira showed a group of more than 30 migrants landing in a dinghy before sprinting off into woodland surrounding the beach to evade the pursuing Spanish border guards.

The news comes as the mayor of the nearby Spanish port of Algeciras warned that his town is at the center of a 'new migrant crisis' after 1,000 arrivals flooded his town in the last week alone.

Slamming the EU for its lack of action José Ignacio Landaluce warned his town risked becoming 'the new Lampedusa' - an Italian island which has been overrun with migrants.


Around 1,600 migrants reached Spanish shores this week with the majority of the new arrivals funneling through Algeciras.  

'I hope the EU is working on a global policy on this: it may be our problem initially, but tomorrow, or in a week's time, or a month's, it'll be at the heart of Europe,' Landaluce said. 

'We've never, ever, ever had 1,000 migrants arriving in Spain each weekend. And all this could just be for starters.

'There's a lot of the summer left and there are thousands and thousands of migrants arriving on the coasts of north Africa and thousands and thousands more who have been waiting to cross for months or years.' 

'We have to talk about the actions of people who come to our shores so that our area does not become the new Lampedusa of the Western Mediterranean.'

The town of 120,000 has been unable to house all the migrants arriving this week, with some forced to sleep on rescue boats and in police cells. 

Spain has become a hotbed of migrant activity in recent weeks after Italy's new hardline interior minister Matteo Salvini introduced a blanket ban on migrant boats entering the country's ports. 

Only yesterday, 600 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa strormed a double border fence at Ceuta, with some throwing excrement or quicklime at security forces to force their way in. 

A spokesman for the Guardia Civil police force in Ceuta said the migrants managed to climb over the double barrier, which is covered in small blades.







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