This was confirmed by the ministry hours after the minister demanded explanations from Pardo Piqueras about a document that the National Immigration and Borders Center (Cenif) had allegedly submitted to National Court judge María Tardón, identifying Moroccan security forces as having guided the mass entry, including through plainclothes officers, and for a purpose unrelated to migration. This contradicted the government’s position, which rejects any Moroccan involvement in the episode.
Specifically, they explained that the judge “ordered investigators not to provide their superiors with any information about the preparation or content of the report,” meaning that the director general of the Police “had no prior knowledge of it.”
However, they said that today the judge authorized the investigative team to “give their superiors access to the report,” prompting Pardo Piqueras to request the documents from the General Information and Foreigners and Borders Commissariats. After reviewing them, the director general of the Police informed the interior minister that none of the reports prepared attributed “the planning or execution” of the events of July 30 and 31 in Ceuta to Moroccan gendarmes, as several media outlets reported last night.
At the same time, the Interior Ministry also referred to other reports indicating that the Cenif had warned border posts on July 29 of a possible surge, explaining that the police chief said it was merely “a frequent-risk alert” and that it “made no reference whatsoever to a possible mass entry the following day.”
It was early this morning that Marlaska sent Pardo Piqueras a letter requesting explanations about the report blaming Morocco, stating that, if true, it should have been “immediately made available” to the members of the National Security Council, the single authority overseeing the crisis, Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory Ángel Víctor Torres, and the other bodies with jurisdiction in this area.
Shortly afterward, both Torres and the minister for the Presidency, Justice and Relations with Parliament, Félix Bolaños, called for “caution” while waiting to analyze the document “thoroughly” before demanding possible accountability, making clear that they had been unaware of it and had learned about it through the media.
