Judge María Tardón seeks to take over the investigation into the actions of the Government delegate in Ceuta

Judge María Tardón has taken a step to take on the investigation in the National Court into how the Government delegate in Ceuta acted in relation to the massive entry of immigrants at the end of July.

The judge indicates in a resolution that she has learned that Plaza 6 of the courts of the autonomous city has opened proceedings following a complaint against Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano. The investigator agrees to send to that court in Ceuta the order in which she agreed to take over the investigation into the mass entry in the Court "so that, in her view, she can assess the relevance of inhibiting herself from her actions in favor of this Court, if it concerns conduct included in the procedure followed here."

It is not a direct request for inhibition, but it clearly reflects Judge Tardón's intention to take on this investigation. Everything indicates that this will happen, given that the Autonomous City Prosecutor's Office has already spoken before court 6 requesting that it be inhibited in favor of the National Court.

Plaza 6 in Ceuta opened proceedings after receiving a complaint from Hazte Oír to investigate whether the government delegate committed crimes of omission of the duty to prosecute crimes, denial of assistance and prevarication by omission, after having received notices from the National Intelligence Center (CNI).

After receiving a report on the events prepared by the National Center for Immigration and Borders (Cenif), the judge ruled that the jurisdiction corresponded to the National Court, because it was a serious attack against the territorial integrity of Spain.

"We are faced with criminal conduct allegedly committed abroad that has seriously attacked the territorial integrity of Spain, which is guaranteed in Article 2 of the Constitution, using for this purpose the massive entry into our country, to which irregular migratory flows have been added that have seriously affected the life and rights of the citizens of Ceuta," states the resolution issued in the case opened after a complaint from Iustitia Europa.

The same order indicated that the investigation would not be limited to searching for the alleged instigators of the wave of immigrants, but would extend to how the Spanish authorities had acted with the information they had to prevent what happened, including the death of 83 people.

"All the actions that take place in Spanish territory related to such a massive and irregular entry of tens of thousands of immigrants, violating the Spanish border [...] will have to be investigated, such as the articulation of adequate means of response in Spanish territory, in relation to the information and alerts of its possible occurrence, and the impact that these actions could have had on the effects produced by this massive entry."