The magistrate of the National Court María Tardón, who is instructing the case regarding the massive entry in Ceuta of people from Morocco at the end of July, will take the testimony this Wednesday from the president of the autonomous city, Juan Jesús Vivas.
The Ceuta leader already announced in several television interviews that he intends to detail to the judge all the calls and warnings he sent to the central Government in the days leading up to the events.
Vivas reiterated that he is the main interested party in clarifying who is behind what he defined as an "aggression to territorial integrity," although he expressed his belief that the responsibility lies with Morocco, considering it implausible that the authorities of the neighboring country were unaware of the movement of thousands of people towards the border.
The day after Vivas's appearance, the judge plans to interrogate Gonzalo Sanz, former chief of staff of the Government Delegation, who submitted his resignation weeks ago after it became known that he received communications from the National Intelligence Center (CNI) via WhatsApp and had a phone conversation of about eleven minutes with an intelligence service agent on July 29, the eve of the events.
This statement will take place after this Monday the now former Government delegate in Ceuta, Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano, submitted his resignation from the position after stating that he is leaving politics because his family "does not deserve this pressure."
Upon taking charge of the procedure, Tardón pointed out a possible "permissiveness" and "a clear and undeniable management favoring the process from the territory of the Kingdom of Morocco" which, she emphasized, "is evidenced through the confirmed and graphically contrasted behavior of the Security Forces of Morocco."
Ceuta, considered "direct and immediate victim"
The judge agreed to these testimonies a week after accepting the representation of Ceuta as a private prosecution in the case, estimating that the autonomous city was a "direct and immediate victim" of the "serious events" recorded at the Tarajal border, where at least 83 people died while trying to access Spanish territory.
In a report requested by Tardón, the National Center for Immigration and Borders (CENIF) of the National Police attributed to the Moroccan Security Forces and Bodies "the active guiding of the mass towards the crossing points" during the massive entry, highlighting that there was "planning" both "prior" and "tactical".
The CENIF also emphasized that what happened was not "incidental", "occasional" or "spontaneous" and pointed to the presence of "an intellectual authorship prior and another material" linked to "monitoring and control functions".
In that line, the Police indicated that there were uniformed Moroccan agents who would have given "instructions to the people who crossed the border irregularly to overcome obstacles" and would have "organized access to the area of heavy vehicles with a large number of immigrants".
Likewise, it highlighted the actions of "dynamizing agents" without uniform, "of strong or athletic build" and with behavior that "does not fit with the behavioral dynamics of the mass that carries out the entry and exit of Spanish territory".