Judge Tardón gives the Police three days to deliver the "alerts" and reports about the avalanche in Ceuta

Judge María Tardón, of the National Court, has granted the National Police a "non-extendable" period of three business days to send it all "alerts", reports and internal notices that were generated about the danger of a massive influx of people into Ceuta, something that ended up happening on July 30 and 31.

In an order to which Servimedia has had access, the judge requires the National Communications Center of the Deputy Operational Directorate of the National Police to provide this documentation "with the greatest urgency" and, in any case, within a "non-extendable" period of three business days. An appeal for reform is possible against the resolution in three days.

Specifically, the instructor demands "all alerts, reports, communications, service orders, emails and operational documentation related to the risk of mass entry issued between July 20 and August 7, 2026." This period covers the ten days before the avalanche and the week after.

Judge Tardón thus sets three days for the National Police to deliver all the "alerts" and reports on the avalanche suffered by Ceuta. In addition, it requires you to identify "the recipients of the alerts, the date and time of receipt and the measures taken in response to them", that is, who received each alert, when and what was done with it.

This requirement occurs after the instructor issued an order on September 16, where this request for data was extended to other police units, to various Benemérita services, to the Government Delegation in the city and to the Interior. Now he reiterates it only to the police communications center, urgently and with a closed deadline.

In that order, the judge considered this procedure to be of "particular relevance" because its purpose is to "reconstruct the flow of information prior to the events and determine the actions developed in response to the detected risk." The request had been made by the Prosecutor's Office and the magistrate assumed it in its entirety.

The case investigates the irregular entry from Morocco of thousands of people, in a mobilization that the September order estimated "between 75,000 and 85,000 people." The judge also highlighted "the existence of eighty-three deaths associated with the events."

The instructor considers it key to know "the information that was available before the events, the existing forecasts" and the circumstances that determined "the operational collapse described in the actions." For this reason, he described as "priority" witnesses the head of the Ceuta Executive, Juan Jesús Vivas, the person in charge of the Local Police in those days and the person who then headed the Cabinet of the Government delegate.

That resolution also requested warnings and risk studies from other information and border units. He asked the director of the CETI, the center that temporarily welcomes immigrants in the city, for the messages he had sent or received about the massive entry and who the recipients were.