Spain's spy agency warned of plans to storm Ceuta before mass migrant crossing, documents show
Spain says 40 declassified intelligence reports showed warnings of a possible mass crossing, but officials said they could not foresee the scale.
- On Wednesday, the Spanish government released 40 intelligence reports revealing that authorities warned of plans to storm Ceuta a day before more than 70,000 migrants crossed into Spain's North African enclave.
- In a July 29 note, the National Intelligence Centre warned Moroccan intelligence agencies and Spanish officials of social media plans to exploit Morocco's Throne Day celebrations for a border breach.
- The CNI cited social media groups with 180,000 followers to illustrate scale, while the Interior Ministry reported passivity among Moroccan border police who failed to control crowds despite 1,000 extra officers deployed.
- Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told reporters on Wednesday, "I was not aware of any information of any kind pointing to the magnitude of the avalanche," regarding the July surge.
- Six weeks later, more than 10,000 migrants remain in Ceuta living in makeshift camps, while NGOs estimate 140 people died during the crossing, fueling ongoing protests from residents.
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The Spanish secret service warned Moroccan and Spanish authorities about the mass crossing of migrants to Ceuta, the Spanish exclave on the North African coast. This is evident from documents released by the Spanish government today. The government released forty intelligence reports, warnings, and messages regarding Ceuta today. Prime Minister Sanchez had promised to publish these following persistent criticism of his government in the afterma…
Spanish intelligence agencies had informed their Moroccan counterparts and Madrid of the planned raid on Ceuta a day before more than 70,000 migrants crossed into the Spanish enclave, according to documents released by the Spanish government today. A note from Spain’s National Intelligence Center (CNI) to Morocco’s DGST and DGED agencies on July 29 said that social media platforms for migrants were discussing plans to enter Ceuta by climbing or …
Although there were "situation reports" about the state of the border, "there was no information to share the magnitude" of the "crisis we were going to suffer," they say.
The Spanish government has published intelligence documents on the migrant rush on Ceuta. The scenario that migrants are swimming around the border fence was known and ignored.
Spain’s spy agency warned of plans to storm Ceuta before mass migrant crossing, documents show
Spanish intelligence services warned their Moroccan counterparts and Madrid of plans to storm Ceuta a day before more than 70,000 migrants crossed into Spain’s North African enclave, according to documents released by the government on Wednesday.
Still thousands of migrants in the Spanish exclave in North Africa.
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