The former director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) and former ambassador, Jorge Dezcallar, has questioned whether the Spanish intelligence services had control over the massive arrival of irregular migrants to Ceuta from Moroccan territory. "I would be very surprised, honestly," he insisted.
In an interview on "TVE," reported by Europa Press, the one who directed Spanish intelligence between 2001 and 2004 emphasized that "50,000 people on the other side of the border do not move without the CNI noticing."
Dezcallar added that "if there is one country that the CNI knows well, it is Morocco" and claimed the role of the Spanish Intelligence service in the European context as "the center that knows the Maghreb best."
It is not just a migratory issue
In this line, he denounced the "negligence or, at least, lack of interest" of the Moroccan authorities when it comes to "preventing" the massive entry of migrants recorded last Thursday in Ceuta, which he understands is not just another migratory episode, but something "much more serious": "It is a crisis that affects sovereignty and territorial integrity," he emphasized.
Regarding the use of migratory flows as a tool of political pressure, Dezcallar argues that the logic of "hybrid warfare" is part of the instruments that Morocco uses "depending on its internal political conveniences."
Finally, he expressed his support for the words of the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, "who has praised the management and work that the CNI has done" during the migratory crisis that hit the autonomous city.