The tragedy in occupied Ceuta has taken a dramatic and alarming turn with the Spanish police submitting a report to the judiciary alleging that Moroccan security forces orchestrated the mass incursion. This account contradicts the version presented by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, while the Interior Ministry protests its exclusion from the report.
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In this regard, the border surveillance to National Court Judge María Tardón. The report stated that what it considered the mass incursion on July 30, when between 72,000 and 80,000 migrants, mostly Moroccans, entered Ceuta, was coordinated by members of the Moroccan security services and was not a spontaneous event linked to a misinterpretation of the Supreme Court ruling on the city's maritime borders, which stipulated that any migrant who swims into Spanish waters cannot be immediately expelled.
The newspaper links the events somewhat to the possibility that Morocco intended, through this alleged operation, to evoke Spain's colonization of the cities of Ceuta and Melilla. It recalls the mass incursion into Ceuta in mid-May 2021, which was linked to Spain's rejection at the time of US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.
The National Court, which handles major cases in Spain, ordered an investigation immediately after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared that "what happened in Ceuta was an attack on the unity of the country." This court is the body authorized to conduct the investigation. At the time, Judge María Tardón requested that the police conduct an investigation and provide her with a report, which was subsequently.
The report constitutes a genuine political earthquake that could lead to unforeseen consequences, as the government has not yet been briefed on it. Interior Minister Fernando Marlaska, in a public letter to the media today, requested the police chief to provide him with the report's contents, arguing that he is responsible for the country's security and that the government must be informed. He emphasized that access to the report, which accuses Morocco, would allow for the implementation of appropriate security and diplomatic measures.
The report calls into question Madrid’s official narrative, and comes one day after Spanish intelligence leaked reports to the newspapers El País and ABC that cast doubt on the role of certain parties within the Moroccan authorities without accusing the state as a whole, and called for a review of relations with Morocco, and preparation for what it described as a “hybrid war” against Ceuta and Melilla by Morocco.
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