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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Madrid

Refugee shot in eye during deadly 2014 crossing into Spain files complaint to UN

Spanish soldier holding baton watching over beach crowded with young Moroccans
A soldier guarding the border between Ceuta, a Spanish enclave, and Morocco. Photograph: Javier Fergo/AP

A refugee who was almost blinded in one eye during a police operation that ended with the deaths of at least 14 people off the coast of Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta 11 years ago has filed a complaint to the UN Committee Against Torture.

Shortly before dawn on 6 February 2014, about 200 people tried to enter Ceuta by climbing the border fence or by swimming around the breakwater that separates the city from Moroccan territory.

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