To understand Spanish overexcitement, we have to refer to the Green March (Arabic: المسيرة الخضراء, romanized: al-masīrat ul-khaḍrāʾ), a strategic mass demonstration in November 1975, coordinated by the Moroccan government and the military, to force Spain to hand over the disputed, autonomous semi-metropolitan province of Spanish Sahara to Morocco. The native inhabitants, the Sahrawi people, aspired to form an independent state. The demonstration of 350,000 Moroccans advancing into Spanish territory forced Spain to give up the colony.
Apparently, Spain perceived the Ceuta spontaneous migration as an organized aggression to liberate the enclave. The current situation of the former Sahara Occidental is disputed; the UN decolonization commission paradoxically takes the Colonizer's side. 
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