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Spain’s interior minister asks police to investigate claims Moroccan agents directed mass entry into Ceuta
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Spain’s interior minister asks police to investigate claims Moroccan agents directed mass entry into Ceuta

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska asked Spain’s police chief to establish whether the National Police had reports that Moroccan agents guided a mass entry into Ceuta for a purpose unrelated to migration.
  • The request follows a report by El Español alleging that the operation aimed to overwhelm Spain’s border-control system and was linked to Rabat’s territorial claims over Ceuta and Melilla.
  • The matter is also subject to an early-stage judicial investigation led by National Court Judge María Tardón.

Spain’s Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska has asked the country’s police chief to determine whether Moroccan agents directed a mass entry into Ceuta for a purpose other than migration.

In a letter obtained by EFE, Grande-Marlaska asked National Police Director General Francisco Pardo to confirm when the police received information about the alleged operation. He described the information as essential to his ability to exercise responsibility during Ceuta’s migration crisis and to allow the government to take appropriate decisions.

The minister also said any such information should be immediately shared with members of the National Security Council and other authorities responsible for the matter. He stressed that this duty applies independently of any judicial proceedings, which he said remain at an early stage and should not prevent security forces from promptly informing the interior minister.

If what this digital outlet publishes is true, I need to know when the National Police had this information.

— Fernando Grande-MarlaskaThe interior minister asked the police chief to establish when officers knew about the alleged Moroccan role in the Ceuta entry.

The request came after El Español reported that Spain’s National Police had told National Court Judge María Tardón that the mass entry from Morocco into Ceuta on July 30 and 31 was guided by Moroccan gendarmes acting under plainclothes agents, with an objective unrelated to migration. According to the newspaper, an intelligence unit within the Foreigners’ Commissariat described the event as a planned effort to overwhelm border controls and remove Spain’s ability to respond. It also said the participants’ profiles differed between the two phases and that Moroccan agents monitored the operation on the ground.

Grande-Marlaska asked Pardo to report as soon as possible on whether the published claims were accurate and to provide any information held by the National Police.

It would be information that must be made immediately available to the members of the National Security Council.

— Fernando Grande-MarlaskaHe argued that the alleged intelligence should be shared with national security authorities.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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