This is the moment neo-Nazi activists were met with fierce opposition in Ceuta this weekend after travelling to ‘defend’ the Spanish enclave from the ‘migrant invasion’.

Footage shared online shows how local residents rallied to reject what they described as attempts to exploit the city’s migrant crisis to spread division and hatred.

Members and supporters of the nationalist group Nucleo Nacional, along with other far-right figures, travelled to the Spanish enclave following the unprecedented migrant surge from Morocco.

Instead of finding support, however, they were confronted by crowds of residents chanting: ‘Nucleo Nacional, hijos de puta (sons of b****es),’ while branding them ‘agitators’ and ‘cowards’.

Many waved Spanish flags and shouted: ‘This is Ceuta, not Torre Pacheco,’ – referencing the Murcia town that was the scene of race riots last year.

The demonstrations also targeted far-right commentator Alvise Perez, whose arrival in Ceuta sparked confrontations that required police intervention.

Perez was forced to take refuge inside a bakery after being surrounded by residents accusing him of exploiting the crisis ‘to spread hatred’ and shouting: ‘Get out of here.’

Police escorted him from the premises under heavy protection after disorder broke out between his supporters and local residents. Officers made several arrests as they separated the two groups.

After leaving under police escort, Perez claimed he had been forced to leave ‘because of radical Muslims in Ceuta’.

‘Ceuta is Spain and we are going to defend it by any means necessary,’ he said.

The Spanish government’s representative in Ceuta, Miguel Angel Perez, criticised the presence of ‘far-right groups that sow hatred and division’.

‘We do not need lessons from people whose only objective is to exploit this situation for political gain,’ he said.