Four Migrants Detained After Stoning Military Patrol Near Ceuta's Royal Walls; Sergeant Injured

In the early hours between Friday and Saturday, four migrants threw stones at a military patrol near a gas station by the rear gate of the Royal Walls (Murallas Reales) on Avenida Martínez Catena, lightly injuring a sergeant. All four denied responsibility, claiming other migrants sleeping nearby were the actual attackers, though soldiers said they kept the assailants in sight throughout. A Ceuta judge ordered the four into pretrial detention on Sunday, Aug 30; prosecutors are seeking four years' imprisonment each for assault plus two years each for injuries, with a request that the sentences be substituted by five years' expulsion from Spain. It is the second confirmed attack on Spanish security forces during the crisis, after the Aug 27 Benzú ambush.