The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, assured this Tuesday that the Spanish intelligence services did not convey at any time that anything "similar" to the massive entry of immigrants recorded in Ceuta on July 30 could occur, nor anything comparable to the migration crisis that the autonomous city experienced in 2021.
Grande-Marlaska made these statements at the press conference held at the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior after the extraordinary meeting held with his European counterparts to address this new migration crisis.
Specifically questioned about the role of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) and after expressing his "confidence and recognition" for the work of "all Spanish information services," the Interior Minister insisted that "there was no report" nor "any warning" that "anything similar to what has happened could happen."
The minister specified that "but not anything similar to what has happened, but nothing similar to what happened in 2021, when 10,000 people entered Ceuta irregularly," thus emphasizing that scenarios similar to those of that crisis were also not considered.
No prior alerts and with established channels
In this context, he emphasized that "IT WOULD HAVE REACHED THE HIGHEST INSTANCES" and stressed that "if there had been any possibility of something like that" occurring, that eventuality "would have had much more complementary information channels" and would have been communicated to the "highest instances" of the State.
"I think that says it all. The information that existed is what has been noted and has been said by other members of the Government of Spain," Grande-Marlaska stated, emphasizing that the forecasts only pointed to the fact that, as happens in other summers, there would be "an increase in irregular entries."
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