Spanish newspapers on Saturday bemoaned the "humiliation" and "catastrophe" of world champions Spain's 5-1 battering by the Netherlands in their opening World Cup match in Brazil.

Most papers splashed on their front pages a photo of Spain's goalkeeper and captain Iker Casillas kneeling with head bowed as Dutch players celebrated after ripping apart the Spanish defense.

Security forces drove back 1,000 African migrants who tried to scramble over a border fence from Morocco into the Spanish territory of Melilla on Saturday, officials said.

The crowd charged around dawn in the latest in a string of desperate attempts to breach the fence, one of Europe's two land borders with Africa.

Spain's King Juan Carlos will skip the swearing-in of his son Felipe as his successor on June 19 so as not to grab attention from him, the palace said Thursday.

Dogged over recent years by scandals and health problems, Juan Carlos is abdicating in favor of his more popular son, after a historic four-decade reign.

Spanish lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the abdication of King Juan Carlos on Wednesday despite anti-royalist protests, paving the way for his son Felipe to take the throne in the first royal succession of post-Franco Spain.

Nine days after Juan Carlos called an end to a 39-year reign that guided Spain from dictatorship to democracy, lawmakers agreed by a wide margin on a law that lets his son inherit the scandal-tainted crown, becoming King Felipe VI.

Spanish global clothing giant Inditex, owner of fast-fashion brand Zara, announced Wednesday a rare fall in quarterly profits even as it pushed ahead with an aggressive international expansion.

Inditex, created 40 years ago in the northwestern Galicia region by railwayman's son Amancio Ortega, said net profit fell 7.3 percent from the same period a year earlier to 406 million euros ($550 million) in the three months to April 30.

Spain's Senate will vote on a law allowing the abdication of King Juan Carlos on June 17, the last step before his son Felipe can ascend to the throne, a spokesman said on Tuesday.

"A plenary session will be held on the 17th to debate the law on the abdication," the spokesman told Agence France Presse.

A Eurofighter jet crashed while attempting to land at an air base in southwestern Spain on Monday, killing its pilot, the defense ministry said.

"A Eurofighter crashed on landing at the start of the runway of the Moron base," near Seville, a ministry spokeswoman told Agence France Presse.

Spanish police on Sunday arrested a member of the armed Basque separatist group ETA suspected of belonging to a unit that killed several police officers in the 1980s, the interior ministry said.

Police detained Maria Jesus Elorza Zubizarreta, 66, at Madrid's Adolfo-Suarez Barajas airport under a European arrest warrant issued by France in 2006, the ministry said in a statement.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Madrid on Saturday to demand a referendum to abolish Spain's monarchy, just days after King Juan Carlos abdicated in favor of his son.

"Spain, tomorrow, will be republican," they chanted, waving the red, purple and gold flags of the country's second republic, proclaimed in 1931 then overthrown eight years later by General Francisco Franco at the end of the country's catastrophic civil war.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Madrid on Saturday to demand a referendum to abolish Spain's monarchy, just days after King Juan Carlos abdicated in favor of his son.

"Spain, tomorrow, will be republican," they chanted, waving the red, purple and gold flags of the country's second republic, proclaimed in 1931 then overthrown eight years later by General Francisco Franco at the end of the country's catastrophic civil war.