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On 18 May 2021 Sánchez said that several thousand people had crossed from Morocco into Ceuta

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In his institutional statement of 18 May 2021, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that the previous afternoon «several thousand» people had crossed from Morocco into Ceuta and described that arrival as «a serious crisis for Spain and also for Europe». The transcript published by La Moncloa was edited by the State Secretariat for Communication.

• The published sentence is: «yesterday afternoon several thousand people crossed the border from Morocco into the Spanish city of Ceuta. This sudden arrival of irregular migrants is a serious crisis for Spain and also for Europe.»
• «Serious crisis» is the Prime Minister's characterization in that statement. It is not a conclusion of this archive.
• The page dates the statement 18 May 2021 and notes that the transcript was edited by the State Secretariat for Communication.
• «Several thousand» is not a closed figure and is not equated here with the minister's «a little over 6,000» or with the later estimate of 8,000 to 10,000.