The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has reported that in Ceuta, 100 expulsions linked to the commission of crimes have already been carried out and has specified that, of the 17 sexual assaults recorded in the autonomous city, seven are classified as rape.
"We are already working and with a very clear concern for the most vulnerable people and what has been referred to regarding sexual assaults, we have seven sexual assaults constitutive of rape to date and 10 other types of sexual assault not constitutive of what we know as rape. And it is a concern the protection of all those vulnerable groups," he has assured.
These statements were made in the Interior Commission of the Congress of Deputies, where he appeared this Friday, August 28, to account for his actions following the massive entry of foreigners into Ceuta on July 30.
Regarding the victims, he pointed out that they are "mainly vulnerable women." "I am not going to identify in more terms because I do not think it is also essential, they are people, mainly vulnerable women in those terms," he indicated.
In parallel, this Thursday, the Attorney General of the State, Teresa Peramato, reminded the media in Ceuta that 16 sexual assaults are recorded, with most of the victims being minors. "What the chief prosecutor (of Ceuta) has told us is that there has truly been an increase in some criminal categories. In the latest report we have received, 16 sexual assaults had been recorded with 17 victims, 16 of them women, the majority minors," Peramato pointed out.
On the other hand, Marlaska has emphasized that "any commission of a crime implies a request to the judicial authority" to request the expulsion from the national territory of the involved persons.
As explained by the head of the Interior, this expulsion is carried out either through the substitution of the penalty for the mandatory exit from the country after the holding of expedited trials, or through an administrative file provided for in the Immigration Law, which requires judicial authorization when that expedited trial is not held. In this context, he insisted that this mechanism is already underway and that, so far, more than 100 people have been expelled.
During his intervention in the Interior Commission, the minister has also indicated that the number of minors registered in Ceuta before July 30 "came to be close to 800."
Likewise, he has placed the number of migrants currently in Ceuta at 5,000 and the figure of minors at 1,500. In addition, he has revealed that the Moroccan authorities have stopped more than 2,700 irregular departures by sea heading to the Spanish coasts so far in 2026.