Migrants in Ceuta Beat Baby Dolphin to Death as 70,000 Border Surge Fuels Anger
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Updated · Fox News · Sep 5
Migrants in Ceuta Beat Baby Dolphin to Death as 70,000 Border Surge Fuels Anger
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 5
Summary
Video from Ceuta shows men and boys lifting a baby bottlenose dolphin from El Trampolin beach, striking it with a stick and apparently killing it as some onlookers cheered.
Sept. 2 eyewitness accounts cited by local campaigner Nadia Garcia Gomez said the disoriented calf was pulled ashore, handled "as if it were an object" and died after a head blow.
Ceuta residents tried to stop the abuse during the confrontation, and the footage has triggered calls for arrests, prosecution and expulsion of those involved; dolphins are protected under Spanish and EU law.
The killing lands amid a wider migrant crisis in the Spanish enclave: more than 70,000 migrants crossed from Morocco in July, thousands remain, and locals last week tore down beachside migrant shelters.