00:00Migrants and residents alike complained on Saturday of the conditions in Ciurta,
00:06Spain's North African enclave that saw 60,000 migrants breach the border in the last few days.
00:14More than 48,000 have since returned to Morocco voluntarily, according to local authorities,
00:20but some say they're determined to stay.
00:25All these people are in a very bad situation.
00:28They're not being given any food or drink and they've closed everything down
00:32so that we can't buy anything to eat to force us to return to our country.
00:37But even if they close it down, even if everything is closed,
00:41we're going to stay here, whether we're hungry or not.
00:46After days of chaos and streets packed with people hoping for a better life in Spain,
00:52Saturday saw a return to an uneasy calm.
00:56But life hasn't yet returned to normal.
01:00There are people here who have run out of bread and haven't been able to buy food
01:04because when they went to some of the supermarkets that had opened,
01:08there was no food or they'd closed.
01:12Yesterday afternoon they were closed because they had nothing left following the rush.
01:17Because what happens is they buy and for the locals there's nothing left.
01:23Spain has deployed armed forces to the territory
01:26and says it will install a 500-metre containment barrier
01:30along the breakwater fence into the sea.
01:35Life in the city has been disrupted as a result of the border incident,
01:39the most severe we've experienced in our history.
01:44Since yesterday, the return of people has begun satisfactorily,
01:49but the process must be completed.
01:52The city hasn't yet returned to normal
01:55and it remains necessary to maintain a high level of public safety.
02:02The sudden influx has reignited the immigration debate in Europe.
02:07Protesters took to the streets of Madrid
02:10while France increased controls at its border with Spain.
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