{"id":75699,"date":"2026-08-25T20:24:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/75699\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T20:24:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:24:40","slug":"sanchezs-ministers-clash-over-whether-madrid-missed-ceuta-migrant-warnings-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/75699\/","title":{"rendered":"S\u00e1nchez\u2019s ministers clash over whether Madrid missed Ceuta migrant warnings \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur armed forces, intelligence services, and, of course, the National Intelligence Center carried out the work that was and is required of them, and shared and analyzed this information with the state security forces and the staff of the government delegation,\u201d the minister told lawmakers, defending the work of the agents she oversees.<\/p>\n<p>Robles\u2019 statement directly contradicts the Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska\u2019s version of events. For weeks, he has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/spain-morocco-ceuta-migrant-surge-border-crisis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">insisted<\/a> the national government did not reinforce the border in Ceuta because it had no way of anticipating the sudden migrant surge.<\/p>\n<p>The minister underscored this point during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-ministers-back-spain-after-ceuta-migration-crisis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extraordinary meeting of the bloc\u2019s interior ministers<\/a> on Aug. 4, in the aftermath of the influx, where he emphasized Spain\u2019s status as a \u201cstrong, reliable partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Grande-Marlaska hit back directly at Robles\u2019 statement during a press conference, insisting that neither Spain\u2019s intelligence services nor any foreign intelligence agents had detected or warned of anything unusual near Ceuta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no report that foreshadowed what ultimately transpired on July 30,\u201d he said, adding that it was a matter of \u201ccommon sense\u201d that any warning would have been taken seriously and handled accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>After lawmakers informed Robles that Grande-Marlaska had denied her statement, the defense minister doubled down and said the country\u2019s intelligence services had warned authorities on July 29, a day earlier than she had originally stated, adding that it was \u201ccommon knowledge, public knowledge, that people were swimming into Ceuta.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOur armed forces, intelligence services, and, of course, the National Intelligence Center carried out the work that was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[191,192,26280,82,203,2264,205,17,209],"class_list":["post-75699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-borders","tag-defense","tag-intelligence-services","tag-madrid","tag-migration","tag-morocco","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-spain","tag-spanish-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}