Spanish skippers circle Ceuta as firefighters call Monday protest and locals shut out hard-line outsiders

More than 100 private boats from the Costa del Sol, Cadiz and Ceuta itself spent Sunday morning wrapping the autonomous city in Spanish flags, foghorns and a simple message shouted across the water: “Ceuta is not alone”. Skippers called the civilian flotilla the “Armada of Solidarity”, a tongue-in-cheek nod to the Navy, not an official military operation. Crews left the marina from about 10.30… Source