00:00Was the Ceuta crisis the biggest single illegal migrant crossing in EU history?
00:09The emergency is over in Ceuta, the Spanish territory bordering Morocco, and it's time to take stock.
00:16At least 80 people died in incidents during the crisis, which saw 72,000 migrants surge across the border into
00:24Spain within 48 hours.
00:26It was the largest simultaneous illegal crossing of migrants ever to happen on EU soil.
00:32Let's compare it with similar events.
00:34In 2021, 8,000 people crossed into Ceuta from Morocco in just 48 hours.
00:41The crisis followed the row between Madrid and Rabat, after Spain hosted for medical treatment Brahim Ghali,
00:48the leader of the Western Sahara Pro-Independence Front, Polisario.
00:52Looking further into Europe, many will remember 2015's mass migration movement sparked by the Syrian civil war.
01:00Hungary was a huge transit hub, with 400,000 people passing through that year.
01:06However, even in the busiest periods, daily arrivals peaked at around 10,000 maximum, nowhere near Ceuta's numbers last week.
01:15Europe faced another huge challenge from the east in March 2020, when up to 25,000 migrants amassed along the
01:23Greek-Turkish border,
01:24after Ankara opened its checkpoints in retaliation for an attack suffered in Syria.
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