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Two soldiers evacuated from Ceuta after immigrant attacks

Defense Minister Margarita Robles visited the hospitalised soldiers in Madrid.

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Two soldiers evacuated from Ceuta after immigrant attacks

What this story says

  • Two soldiers were evacuated from Ceuta to the Gómez Ulla Hospital in Madrid.
  • The soldiers were victims of attacks by immigrants during their deployment.
  • Defence Minister Margarita Robles visited the soldiers at the hospital.
  • The Ministry of Defense has not specified the extent of the soldiers' injuries.

Who covered it

Left 0%(0)Centre 50%(3)Right 50%(3)

Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 9 of the 15 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

42/100

Craft

55/100

Hype

65/100

15 sources · methodology

Two soldiers serving in Ceuta have been evacuated to the Gómez Ulla Hospital in Madrid. Reports indicate they were victims of attacks by immigrants while deployed in the area. Defence Minister Margarita Robles visited the soldiers at the hospital. The Ministry of Defense has not disclosed the specific nature or severity of their injuries.

Disagreement on injury details

While most reports state the soldiers were attacked by immigrants, one digest from El Debate noted the Ministry of Defense has not specified the extent of the injuries or when they occurred. Another digest from ABC stated that one of the soldiers required surgical intervention.

What the coverage left out

None of the left-rated reports mentioned the evacuation of the two soldiers from Ceuta to a Madrid hospital after being attacked by immigrants.

Tags:#Ceuta#Military#Immigration#Spain

Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 1 time, most recently on 17 Sept 2026, 10:15, and will add the sides that appear.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated left has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.

Centre

3 rated outlets

  • The centre-rated digests focused on the evacuation of the two soldiers from Ceuta to the Gómez Ulla Hospital in Madrid following attacks by immigrants. They reported that Defence Minister Margarita Robles visited the soldiers. El Confidencial digests also mentioned that the Ministry of Defense did not detail the extent of the injuries and that professional groups reported a lack of protection.

Right

3 rated outlets

  • The right-rated digests highlighted that two soldiers were evacuated from Ceuta to the Gómez Ulla Hospital in Madrid after being attacked by immigrants. El Debate's digest noted that the Ministry of Defense had not specified the extent of the soldiers' injuries or when they occurred. ABC's digest stated that one soldier required surgery and identified the attackers as Moroccans.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Two soldiers evacuated from Ceuta after immigrant attacks?
Of the 6 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 0% are rated left, 50% are rated centre, 50% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 15. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Two soldiers evacuated from Ceuta after immigrant attacks left or right?
Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 6 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
Is the coverage of Two soldiers evacuated from Ceuta after immigrant attacks biased?
Two soldiers evacuated from Ceuta after immigrant attacks is one event reported by 15 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which outlets covered Two soldiers evacuated from Ceuta after immigrant attacks?
15 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
Why were the soldiers evacuated from Ceuta?
Two soldiers were evacuated from Ceuta to the Gómez Ulla Hospital in Madrid because they were victims of attacks by immigrants during their deployment in the area.
Who visited the soldiers in hospital?
Defence Minister Margarita Robles visited the two soldiers who were hospitalised in Madrid after being attacked in Ceuta.
What is the extent of the soldiers' injuries?
The Ministry of Defense has not specified the extent of the soldiers' injuries. One report indicated that one soldier required surgical intervention.

Read it at the source

15 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.

Left

0

No outlet in this group ran the story.

Centre

3

Right

3

Not rated

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