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EFE published a three-month balance. The figures for who remains do not match

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On 30 October EFE wrote a three-month balance. It attributes about 80,000 entries and more than 10,000 people still housed, and to the Government of Ceuta about 100,000 entries and about 15,000 who would remain. The Chamber of Commerce and the Business Confederation speak, according to EFE, of losses above 75 million euros. Other pieces on 31 October give other figures for who remains. They are not averaged. This archive keeps the 2021 entry in May.

• EFE, 30 October: “illegal entry from Morocco of about 80,000 migrants, of whom more than 10,000 are still housed”. In the same piece, the Government of Ceuta “puts at about 100,000 people” those who entered and estimates, “by indicators such as water consumption”, that “about 15,000” remain. Those are two estimates inside the same text. They are not merged.
• EFE, on 28 October, quoting the Mochila communiqué, already attributed to the City about 100,000 entries and about 15,000 people. That is the same wording in another piece, not a new confirmation. Europa Press, recounting the fencing file, writes about 80,000 and more than 80,000. The Objective writes of an avalanche of 80,000. Each attribution stays in its piece.
• EFE attributes to the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Confederation “economic losses above 75 million euros”. That is those bodies’ figure according to the outlet.
• The same piece writes 13,200 voluntary returns and 608 expulsions. The 13,200 is not merged with the 13,215 of 27 October. The 125 reunifications and the 181 transfers are already on that day’s entry. Here EFE adds, according to the Delegation, that the 87 files were sent “without any response having been received”. That is not a different count of the 87 and it is not added to the 73 reports.
• Civil Guard sources tell EFE, in that piece, that 7,477 people remain in the Government’s facilities. The 27 October entry speaks of 7,477 places. People and places are not equated.
• EFE, 31 October, attributes to the Ceuta government 7,500 people in camps, plus an estimate of “about 3,000 or 4,000” outside the facilities, and “about 400 or 500” minors on the street. El Español, the same day, writes “almost 7,500” in facilities and “between 3,000 and 4,000” outside, an estimate it attributes to the government. The Objective writes “between 8,000 and 10,000” according to the National Police and 15,000 according to the Ceuta government, and also 7,477 housed as a government figure.
• Ceuta Actualidad, 31 October, attributes to Ramírez “about 15,000 people not taken into shelter”. In its wording that contradicts the 3,000 or 4,000 of the same day. This archive does not decide whether it is a wording error. It does not average the two.
• El Español frames the report around the word “macro-CETI”, which it attributes to the councillors. That is the piece’s framing, not a finding of this archive. EFE writes that the 2026 entry is “the second that takes place after the events of mid-August 2021”. The mass entry of 2021 was on 17 and 18 May, according to La Moncloa. From 13 August 2021, the Interior Ministry returned to Morocco some of the minors who had entered in May, and on 16 August two courts in Ceuta halted those returns. This archive keeps the 2021 entry in May.