The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has requested the Director General of the Police, Francisco Pardo, to confirm "as soon as possible" the content of the report that attributes the massive entry of migrants recorded in Ceuta on July 30 and 31 to the Moroccan Security Forces and Corps.
According to what the Interior has communicated, Marlaska has sent a letter to Pardo in which he asks to "be informed about the veracity" of the document that the National Center for Immigration and Borders (CENIF), the intelligence unit attached to the General Commissariat of Foreigners and Borders, would have sent to the National Court in those terms.
In that report, advanced by 'El Español', the Police informs the judge of the National Court María Tardón that the massive entry of people was conducted by Moroccan gendarmes following the instructions of plainclothes agents and with a purpose different from merely migratory.
If what is stated in the document is confirmed, the Interior Minister requests through an official letter to the Director General of the Police to specify "since when the National Police had that investigation."
For Marlaska, it is "essential" to know this detail so that the Government can adopt the "appropriate decisions regarding the migratory crisis in Ceuta in exercise of its constitutional functions of directing domestic and foreign policy and defending the State," according to the information provided by the Interior.
The minister has also emphasized before the Director General of the Police that, after the declaration of the situation of interest for national security approved by the Government on August 25, "such information should have been made immediately available to the members of the National Security Council," of the 'single command' headed by the Minister of Territorial Policy, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the other bodies with responsibilities in this matter.
So far, both the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and Marlaska himself have disassociated Morocco from the crisis in Ceuta, which they have linked to the spread of falsehoods on social networks following the Supreme Court ruling that prevents the return of migrants who enter by swimming into Spain, as well as to the activity of mafias and the shadow role of Russia and Israel.
Both have also insisted that neither the CNI nor other intelligence services of the State Security Forces and Corps warned of the massive entry into Ceuta at the end of July, as only situation reports similar to those of previous years were received.
It is worth remembering that the magistrate of the National Court María Tardón requested on August 3 from the General Commissariat of Immigration and Borders of the National Police a report to determine whether the crisis experienced in Ceuta was due to the coordinated action of a criminal organization.
The judge also submitted a request to the Information Service of the Civil Guard in order to clarify whether this body was warned in advance about the massive entry of migrants in the days prior to the episode.