Meanwhile, violent border policing is kept farther afield: out of sight, out of mind. At home, it’s about drones, surveillance and technical cooperation to identify migrants approaching the EU border before they even reach it. “The European style is to outsource this more vicious, older style of border control with its razor wire and multiple fences to third countries.
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These apparent double standards are part of a pattern, says Karl Kopp, of the German NGO Pro Asyl. And Grande-Marlaska announced recently that fences around the two Spanish exclaves would be raised by 30 metres to deter incomers.
Spain’s humanitarian policy has become largely redundant, though, given that Moroccan authorities have started installing razor wire along their own border fence with Ceuta. And throughout 20, Spanish officials stated their determination to remove the razor wire and, in the words of the interior minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, move beyond “bloody methods” of border control. The socialist government led by Pedro Sanchez had a chance to make good on repeated promises of a more humanitarian migration policy after June 2018. The wire was first installed in 2005, removed two years later and restored by the centre-right government of Mariano Rajoy in 2013. The Spanish authorities started removing the razor wire from these fences last December as part of a review of border security. Photograph: Antonio Sempere/AFP/Getty Images A migrant climbs a fence fortified with razor wire on his way into the Spanish territory of Ceuta, north Africa, in August 2019.
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