Santiago Abascal arrived in Ceuta on Monday and immediately declared the entire autonomous city a militarized zone, ordering every resident to report to the border for permanent guard duty in rotating shifts. «We begin with twelve-hour watches,» he announced from a makeshift podium near the port, «and we will extend them until the last Ceutí has personally stared down the last migrant.»
The Vox leader, accompanied by French National Rally president Jordan Bardella, then led a ceremonial march to the border fence, where he personally inspected a row of beach chairs installed for the new civilian sentinels. «Each chair faces the water,» he explained. «This is how you defend a city.»
King Felipe VI, in Ceuta for the first royal overnight stay of the democratic era, was rerouted to a military barracks after Abascal's supporters occupied every hotel within the city limits. The monarch was reportedly assigned a bunk bed and a locker, while Queen Letizia was issued a reflective vest and a whistle for her shift.
By nightfall, the entire population had been divided into three shifts, with a special fourth shift for children over the age of six. Abascal promised to return next week to inspect the new border chairs personally and to extend the patrols to Melilla, where he plans to install a similar set of recliners facing the sea.