The Spanish Government questions the CENIF report on the massive entry into Ceuta and accuses it of an interested leak

The Government thinks that everything that happened regarding the report from the National Center for Immigration and Borders (CENIF) is "strange" which indicates that the Moroccan police and gendarmes not only allowed, but also guided, the massive entry on July 30. The anger in the Government for - as he claims - not having access to said information is important, starting with Pedro Sánchez himself and ending with Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and in Moncloa they are already resorting to "the mud machine" to explain a leak that they see as "interesting" in the documentation and given the possibility of a judicial case being opened to investigate what happened in Ceuta.

At the moment, the National Court has yet to decide whether it is competent to initiate an investigation into the events after the collection of information carried out by Judge María Tardón. There is also the possibility - minimal - that it will not find evidence to open a specific case or that it will transfer the investigations to other instances. However, in Moncloa they assure that they do not understand that the magistrate ordered the agents in charge of gathering and analyzing the documentation not to share it with anyone other than her.

Although it does not anticipate future movements, the Executive is not going to let go of an incident that in the midst of the crisis has undermined its credibility, in view of the en bloc reaction of all parliamentary groups. The president hinted at this during his appearance in Congress: "It will have to be explained why the CENIF did not share with its superiors and the Government the content of a report commissioned by a judge and with potential implications for the security of the State," he assured.

Hours later, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, sent a letter to the president of the General Council of the Judiciary, Isabel Perelló, expressing his "concern" about Judge Tardón's decision. Be that as it may, in Moncloa they also admit and celebrate that, as soon as these facts became known and they asked the judge that the higher levels of the Police could access said report, she authorized it without delay.

An "interesting" information

However, the sources consulted have no doubt that public knowledge of the CENIF report is part of an "interested leak" through which, they continue, "manipulated information" has been published. Because the Government continues to defend that no "conclusive evidence" is extracted from the police documentation that it is Morocco that is behind the massive entry of 80,000 immigrants into Ceuta.

Privately, Moncloa does not diminish the value or seriousness of what was investigated and compiled by the Police. In public, this same Thursday, the Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puente, questioned his credibility. "To me, this fact that a police report is based on photos of videos that circulate on the networks and that even have notes from the community for their falsity...", he expressed on his X account, sharing one of the screenshots of a video in which a Moroccan agent is observed emptying a truck of citizens. Regarding this particular capture, the Government maintains that it shows a scene that took place more than 50 kilometers from Tarajal, which is why they believe it is difficult to relate it to the border assault.

This is one of the elements that the Government clings to to justify that it cannot blame Morocco and that the report does not clearly state it either. Thus, with respect to the rest of the images of Moroccan soldiers, plainclothes agents and uniformed officers directing the assault, Moncloa says that it is necessary to investigate the possibility that these troops have been "bought" by "mafias" or "by whoever is behind it" and have acted under their orders and not under those of the Moroccan Government, which, according to sources, has assured Spain that it has initiated its own investigation. "Assuring that Morocco is responsible is a hoax. It is all more complex," they assert, indicating that this does not mean that they rule out the Alawite regime.

In fact, the publication of the CENIF report and the latest revelations caused the President of the Government to refer a little more severely to the neighboring country this Thursday. "If there was solid evidence [of their involvement], we would act with transparency and total forcefulness. If there is one thing they will recognize from us, it is that this Government is not afraid to confront other foreign powers when the situation has required it," he assured.

The call of the Moroccan ambassador

Sánchez also surprised the Lower House this Thursday with a revelation: that on August 21, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, summoned the Moroccan ambassador to Spain after the "unacceptable" statements by the Moroccan Government claiming the sovereignty of Ceuta and Melilla. Shortly after, it was known that the diplomat was not in our country when she was summoned.

Moncloa then clarified that, given the situation, Albares met with the chargé d'affaires of Morocco, the ambassador's number 2, but that, "as protocol dictates" in case she is not at the embassy, ​​he called her to inform her of the reasons for the call. Regarding the reasons why this movement by the foreign government was not announced, the sources consulted assert that "international relations require prudence."