Agadir – A senior Spanish regional official has called for “evident consequences” if a newly reported police assessment linking Moroccan security forces to the mass arrival of migrants in Ceuta is confirmed, just after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez ruled out Moroccan involvement in the crisis.
Emiliano García-Page, president of Spain’s Castilla-La Mancha region, said today that the reported findings concerning the events of July 30 and 31 were highly significant and raised questions about why Spanish authorities had not previously sought such information from the police or intelligence services.
“If the information in the police report is confirmed, it must have obvious consequences in all areas,” García-Page said in a video statement that has since been picked up by converging Spanish media reports.
His comments came after Spanish newspaper El Español reported on a National Police intelligence report submitted to National Court Judge María Tardón concerning the mass entry into Ceuta.
According to the report, the National Center for Immigration and Borders (CNIF), a unit within the National Police’s General Commissariat for Foreigners and Borders, attributes the planning and execution of the mass entry of around 70,000 people to Moroccan security forces.
The report claims that Moroccan gendarmes guided groups toward specific access points into Ceuta, while plainclothes individuals monitored the operation and gave instructions to uniformed officers.
It further argues that the migration component may have served as the formal cover for an operation intended to overwhelm Spain’s border-control system and limit its ability to respond.
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García-Page questioned why a judge had to request information about the events rather than Spanish security or intelligence authorities seeking to establish what had happened.
“I really wonder if it had to be a judge who requested a report on what happened,” he said, questioning whether “no one else had asked or suggested to the National Police or our intelligence services that they provide information.”
He added that the information published so far was relevant but stressed that a full picture of the events was still needed before definitive conclusions could be drawn.
Yet this reported police assessment starkly contrasts with statements Spain’s Prime Minister made on Monday as he once again dismissed the unproven allegations that Morocco orchestrated the Ceuta crisis.
There was no information from Spain’s security forces, National Intelligence Centre (CNI), or other intelligence services indicating that Moroccan authorities had participated in the mass arrival, Sánchez told Cadena SER.
Intelligence information available to Spanish authorities raised “no doubt” about the absence of Moroccan involvement, stressed the prime minister.
He described Spain’s migration cooperation with Morocco as “frankly positive,” noting that Moroccan authorities rapidly reinforced their police presence in Castillejos, near Ceuta, after the crisis began.
Spanish media has once again revived the debate over Morocco’s alleged responsibility for the crisis, continuing a broader narrative that places much of the blame on Rabat.
The recurring focus on Morocco has also turned the country into a convenient target for Spanish politicians seeking to frame the crisis and advance their political agendas.