Ceuta grapples with aftermath of border surge after most migrants leave the Spanish territory

Guardia Civil officers recover the body of a migrant from the water in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Antonio Sempere) 03 Aug 2026 05:23AM CEUTA, Spain: Ceuta over the weekend no longer looked like a city on edge, but the events of the week were still on everyone’s minds.Most of the 60,000 migrants who swam, scrambled and later charged into the tiny Spanish exclave in North Africa this week had walked back to Morocco by Sunday, while others tried to blend in and stay on. Spanish civil guard ships continued searching for migrant bodies in the waters near the stretch of urban beach that tens of thousand of migrants had breached days earlier.Shops in Ceuta reopened, and the usual blend of residents and tourists in the city of 84,000 were filling the open-air t