Spain and Morocco have reached an understanding to implement measures that allow for the delivery "as soon as possible" of "all" the migrants who in recent days have entered irregularly into Ceuta, especially this Thursday, when a large number of people managed to overcome the fence at the El Tarajal jetty.
Sources from the Ministry of the Interior explain that both governments have decided to "reinforce coordination and efforts to address these flows and have committed to reviewing and implementing measures for the delivery, as soon as possible, of all the people who have entered illegally" into the autonomous city, with the aim of curbing migratory pressure in the area.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, has maintained constant contacts with his Moroccan counterpart, Abdelouafi Laftit, and plans to travel this Friday to Ceuta to follow on the ground the evolution of this migratory crisis and supervise the actions agreed upon between the two countries.
In parallel, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has stated that "the necessary measures" are being prepared to "recover normality as soon as possible," as he indicated in a message on X reported by Europa Press, in which he emphasizes the involvement of the Executive in the situation generated at the border.
After speaking with the president of the autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas, Sánchez conveyed that the central Government is focused on providing an "immediate" response to what is happening in Ceuta and on working in coordination with the Moroccan authorities and with the international organizations involved in migratory management.
So far, the Executive maintains that cooperation with Morocco is "excellent" and avoids attributing to the authorities of the neighboring country the responsibility for the mass entry of people into Spanish territory. On the contrary, both governments point to "criminal organizations" and "human trafficking" that seek to "instrumentalize" the recent ruling of the Supreme Court that prohibits 'hot returns' of those who reach the shores of Ceuta and Melilla by swimming.
From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it has also been rejected to link this migratory surge with the trip that Pedro Sánchez made to Algeria on July 20, a country with which Rabat has a historic diplomatic dispute.
"The relationship with Morocco is excellent and is not affected at all by the good relations with Algeria," sources from the department headed by José Manuel Albares have pointed out to Europa Press, who also insist that cooperation on migration matters, as well as on "other issues," is "very intense."