The Spanish Supreme Court issued a decision regarding migration a few weeks prior to the mass migration event in Ceuta.
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Behind the BastardsOct 3, 2026
The Spanish Supreme Court issued a migration-related ruling on pushbacks of sea arrivals in Ceuta and Melilla about three weeks before the late-July mass entry into Ceuta, as Reuters and DW report.
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… have left, but many of the migrants are still there, and so people were in very different situations as to why they chose to make the move in that moment. There isn't a single answer. Some of the factors that we can point to and we can see is, you know, there was a Supreme Court decision in Spain just a few weeks prior to this mass migration in July, and so that decision was in June, and, you know, that decision was a very specific Supreme Court decision in Spain about regularization because Spain has been regularizing migrants, which has been really significant, actually, in the context of, you …
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Supports. Reuters reports that a Supreme Court ruling was published about three weeks before the mass rush into Ceuta, saying migrants caught at sea could not be immediately pushed back at the border.[1]
Supports. DW's fact check says the Supreme Court decision on migrant returns was issued several weeks before the Ceuta crisis and became the focus of misleading claims.[3]
Supports. The Martens Centre and EPRS sources date the judgment to 8 July 2026, which is a few weeks before the mass entry on 30–31 July.[4][5]
Supports. AP reports that about 72,000 people entered Ceuta in late July, and that Sánchez blamed a misinterpretation of a Supreme Court ruling for encouraging the rush.[2]
Context. The claim matches the passage's wording, which refers to a Supreme Court decision on migration a few weeks before the July mass migration in Ceuta, so no extraction departure applies.
Sources
5 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 3 not rated
- 1The viral videos that inspired tens of thousands to swim to Spain's Ceutareuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Tens of thousands in Spain protest Ceuta border crisis - AP Newsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3Fact check: Did disinformation trigger the Ceuta crisis?dw.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4[PDF] Migration Update - Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studiesmartenscentre.eu · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Ceuta migrant crisis: What it means for Spain and the rest of ...europarl.europa.eu · not rated · cited for: supports
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Related claims
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