Spain's PM Sanchez says no evidence Morocco orchestrated Ceuta border surge
Sánchez said 141 migrants died and 5,000 remain in Ceuta as Spain releases reports on the crossing and faces pressure over Morocco ties.
- On Thursday, September 3, 2026, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez told Parliament there was no 'solid proof' that Morocco orchestrated the late-July Ceuta migrant surge, announcing a €309 million emergency package and requesting EU border agency Frontex and Europol support.
- Approximately 72,000 people crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on July 30-31, 2026, in an unprecedented surge; a leaked police report alleged Moroccan security forces practiced 'total permissiveness' by guiding migrants toward the border during a peak 10-hour period.
- Spain summoned Morocco's ambassador to Madrid on August 21, 2026, after two Moroccan ministers made 'unacceptable' comments claiming sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla, marking a formal diplomatic protest.
- Tens of thousands of people protested across Spain on Wednesday demanding accountability for the government's handling of the crisis; Sánchez vowed to publish an official dossier ensuring 'absolute transparency' of all documents.
- Government officials urged King Felipe VI to visit Ceuta and Melilla in the coming weeks as a show of support, though the proposal risks inflaming tensions with Rabat; roughly 5,000 migrants remain in the enclave.
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Madrid. The president of the Spanish government, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, said yesterday before the Congress of Deputies that “he has no evidence” of Morocco’s participation in the migratory crisis in Ceuta. He also claimed the sovereignty of the autonomous city, ensuring that the city “is not the border of Spain. It is Spain on the border”.
The Spanish Prime Minister has always denied any responsibility of the country in the crisis in Ceuta, and virtually everyone is criticizing it.
Spanish PM defends handling of Ceuta crisis, refuses to pin Morocco
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday rejected, again, suggestions that Moroccan authorities helped orchestrate the deadly mass crossing of migrants from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, as pressure grows over his handling of the crisis
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