The Spanish Kings in Ceuta and Melilla

[wizzard]

The spanish king Juan Carlos visited Ceuta and Melilla, which they are spanish enclave.

Since the spanish king announced that he will go to visit Ceuta and Melilla, morocco people started a demonstration in front of spanish embassy in Africa, they tell that Ceuta and Melilla are African cities.

What do you think about it?

[Niccolo and Donkey]

1. Moroccans should shut the fuck up in light of their actions in Spain and in particular with the Madrid train bombings

2. Juan Carlos should be deposed for allowing Franco to be officially disgraced by the socialist scum in power

[Ambrosio Spinola]

Morroco also claims the Canary islands and half of south Spain. So?
Ceuta was Spanish before even Navarre and was Spanish several centuries before anything called Morroco came up. So much for historical reasons.

Of course presently, while filled with a fanatically loyal pro-Spanish population (no wonder) its really only a hassle. Anyone recall those massive assaults by inmigrants upon the city´s fence walls last year?

[Jake Featherston]

Ceuta became part of Spain in 1580, due to the unfication with Portugal (Ceuta was the only Portuguese colony to side with Spain come 1640). Portugal first conquered it during the 1400s, so its been a European possession for substantially longer even than its been Spanish.

[Felix the Cat]

http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME01.YAM19485.html

(ANSAmed) - MADRID, NOVEMBER 6 - Triumphal welcome today for King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia of Spain, who arrived in Melilla for a visit which, together with that in the other Spanish enclave in Moroccan territory, Ceuta, yesterday, was severely criticised by Rabat. Almost half of the 72,000 citizens of Melilla, the media reported, rushed to welcome the king and queen, on their first visit as sovereigns, in the central square Plaza de Espana, shouting: 'Long live the king!' and 'Melilla is Spanish' and waving flags and photographs of the royal couple. Here Juan Carlos was received by the president of the autonomous city Juan José Imbroda, who handed to him the Staff of command. The king inspected a detachment of troops after listening to the national anthem. "I could not wait any longer to come to express my affection and support for you," the king said, repeating, with a veiled reference to the crisis with Rabat, whatever he said in Ceuta on the wish to maintain good relations with all the "neighbouring" countries. The visit to the two enclaves, claimed by Morocco, caused a strong reaction by the latter, which withdrew its ambassador in Madrid for consultations, condemning a "provocation" which damages the relations between the two countries. Moroccan Prime Minister Abbas al Fassi yesterday compared the situation in Ceuta and Melilla to that of Palestine occupied by Israel, inviting Spain to "understand that the time of colonialism is finished forever" and that the two cities must return to their motherland through "direct negotiations". The conservative Spanish press replied today by rejecting the comparison with Palestine. But the observers are wondering about the dimensions of the crisis with Morocco, while waiting for the speech which king Mohamed VI must utter tonight, on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the 'Green March' organised in Western Sahara by hundreds of thousands of Moroccans, wanted by Hassan II with the purpose to force the Spanish to leave the colony. The coincidence of the visit of Juan Carlos with the anniversary of the 'Green March', along with the recent decision by judge Baltasar Garzon to start a procedure for genocide in western Sahara against top officers of the Alawi security, together with the feeling that Madrid is reacting to the 'preference' granted by Morocco to French industry, are indicated by the observers as the reasons for the strong reaction of Rabat.(ANSAmed).