Sandra López, Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) secretary for Institutional Policy in Ceuta, stumbled last Saturday afternoon upon a group of migrants while walking her dog. One of them, speaking halting Spanish and using expressive gestures, asked how to get to the Ceuta neighborhood of Benzú. His name was Adil and he was about 25 years old. She pointed out the shortest route, across the Postigo area. He flatly refused. When she pressed — bewildered by his resistance to the directions — he lifted his clothing to show her his body. He revealed scratches on his legs and torso and, above all, wounds, one of them deep, on his left arm, traces of the blows he said he had suffered in that neighborhood. She photographed the injuries with her phone and asked why he had not reported what happened to the police. He dismissed the idea. He was afraid that if he went to the station he would be arrested and expelled from Ceuta. Adil and his companions began walking toward Benzú, taking a several-kilometer detour to avoid the alleged attackers.
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