The audio of the Chief of Staff about the alerts in Ceuta: "It did not sit very well with some ministry. They did not like that it was said so clearly and so precisely"

The statement before the judge by the Chief of Staff of the Government Delegation in Ceuta explained how the central government received the warnings about what was happening in the autonomous city. Gonzalo Sanz Ruiz declared to the judge of the National Court that the ministries with which they were in contact showed their displeasure when they raised the tone of the warnings, to the point of speaking of "collapse" or "emergency."

This is reflected in the recording of his witness statement on October 1. "He was talking about collapse, he was talking about a migratory emergency," Judge María Tardón tells him in reference to the joint report agreed upon between the delegation and the City of Ceuta in a meeting on July 27. "As the delegate told us, it seems that it did not sit very well with some ministry. They did not like that it was said so clearly and so precisely," declared the Chief of Staff, who resigned after the Government delegate stated that he did not convey the CNI's notice that there were groups on social networks that were promoting mass entry and that they had 180,000 users.

"We knew that in Moncloa maybe they weren't going to love it, which was true in the end," says the witness about that statement. Some points were clarified and the statement ended up coming out. "There is a phrase that says that not only is it ruled out that repeated episodes of massive entry will occur, but that this scenario is highly probable," he adds. Of course, Gonzalo Sanz could not tell the judge to do so expressly: "We warned it very tacitly in the reports."