The closure of some of the largest Facebook groups related to irregular entries to Ceuta has not ended the calls. It has made them harder to detect.
An analysis by Golden Owl, a company linked to the Scientific Park of the University of Alicante and reported this Saturday by El País, detects the simultaneous disappearance of five groups that collectively gathered more than 200,000 members.
From Facebook to employment groups and WhatsApp
The study argues that part of the activity is being transferred to groups with seemingly ordinary names and purposes, such as job offers or geographical communities.
This complicates detection because it is no longer enough to locate spaces dedicated expressly to emigration. Researchers also point out a second layer, less visible, formed by private WhatsApp groups that are accessed by invitation.
One of the changes that most concerns the authors is the diversification of destinations. The analysis detects conversations pointing to Melilla and the Nador area as alternatives in light of the increased surveillance over Ceuta.
The possible call for August 15 continues to appear in these exchanges. The report considers it likely that there will be some new attempt at entry, although it estimates it unlikely to reach the dimensions of the massive arrival recorded at the end of July. That assessment belongs to the authors of the study and does not imply that a new entry is confirmed, according to what El País reports.
The Civil Guard is already separately analyzing the calls disseminated on social networks for those dates. The result turns next week into a new window of surveillance both in Ceuta and in Melilla.