Paraglider dodges Spanish border controls

Spain is searching for someone who paraglided over a border fence from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla in what appears to be the first use of the method to enter European territory.

Footage obtained by El Faro newspaper shows the unidentified person landing and running off. Two people reported seeing the paraglider on Thursday, according to Eder Barandiaran, a press officer for Spain’s government delegation in Melilla, one of two Spanish territories in north Africa.

Twenty-three people died in a crush at the fence in Melilla in June as hundreds tried to cross. Spanish authorities have been accused of unlawfully pushing some people back into Morocco, violating their right to seek asylum.