Frontex chief: Increase in migrants reaching EU via Spain

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Migrants are increasingly taking the Western route across the Mediterranean to reach Europe via Spain, the head of the EU’s border monitoring agency warned.

“If you ask me about my greatest concern, I say it’s Spain,” Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag in an interview to be published Sunday, excerpts of which were released Saturday.

The agency registered 6,000 irregular border crossings from Africa in the region last month, Leggeri said. Around half of those trying to enter the continent are Moroccans, while the rest of them come from countries in West Africa, he added.

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