Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has said the recent inpouring of around 60,000 migrants into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta was part of a “diabolical plan of ethnic replacement”.

The incident had seen Italy temporarily suspend parts of its Schengen agreement with Spain in response, though the Spanish Government claims that most of the migrants who arrived during the July 30 and 31 influxes have now returned home. The number of migrants who arrived in Ceuta was equivalent to around 70 per cent of Ceuta’s 84,000 population.