The National Court supports Judge Tardón regarding Marlaska's complaints about the investigation in Ceuta

The Government Chamber of the National Court has shown its "absolute support" for the actions of Judge María Tardón in response to the complaint of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, because she prohibited the police officers investigating the migratory crisis in Ceuta from providing information to their superiors.

This is stated by said body in the agreement that was adopted this Friday unanimously by its nine members, which estimates that Judge María Tardón "not only has not interfered with national security with her actions, but on the contrary, she is acting for the preservation and defense of the general interest of Spain within the framework of scrupulous respect for her jurisdictional functions."

The Government Chamber of the National Court appreciates "the response given by the president of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary, Isabel Perelló, in defense of judicial independence and in particular of the judge of this National Court María Tardón, demanding maximum respect for her from the political authorities."

This Thursday, Minister Marlaska complained to the General Council of the Judiciary that Judge Tardón prohibited the police investigating the migration crisis in Ceuta from providing information to their superiors, to which the president of the CGPJ, Isabel Perelló, has asked for "maximum respect" for the judge's decisions.

Marlaska sent a letter to Perelló in which he conveyed his "concern" about the judge's decision and she responded with another letter, in which she said she shared with Marlaska "the seriousness and extraordinary nature of the crisis," but made it clear that "the judge's actions respond to the exercise of her constitutional functions, for which we must all show the utmost respect."

The Minister of the Interior began this exchange of letters after the National Center for Immigration and Borders (CENIF), attached to the General Commissariat for Immigration and Borders, had prepared a report at the request of the judge of the National Court, who according to the Interior gave orders to the investigators not to provide their superiors with any information about said report.

In it, the Police describe what happened in Ceuta on July 30 and 31 as a "planned" mass entry of people, in no case "spontaneous" and involving Moroccan agents, highlighting the police response of "total permissiveness" or the presence of uniformed and non-uniformed agents in attitudes compatible with the monitoring or control of what was happening.