Deceiving more than 60,000 people by promising them paradise would seem impossible if we had not seen it in Ceuta. Tens of thousands of young people believed what the networks said and decided to seek that better life that Morocco does not give them. The first conclusion of the avalanche of immigrants to the autonomous city is the situation in Morocco, which celebrates a pompous party while letting its citizens starve.
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It is not known whether the Moroccan authorities encouraged the avalanche, but what is clear is that their passivity made it impossible to stop the migratory movement from Spain, which seemed very organized and with very concise instructions. The nearly one hundred deaths already recorded in the Mediterranean will weigh on the conscience of Mohamed VI’s government whether or not the sea is a “border containment element,” as the Supreme Court spoke of in a ruling that served as a trigger for the crisis, aside from the buoys now being placed to mark it.
Responsibilities must be assumed for this glaring failure of the intelligence service
There is also responsibility on the part of the Spanish intelligence services, the CNI. Such a glaring failure of a country’s intelligence requires explanations and accountability because there were signs that this could happen. All that misinformation that whoever reached the border had a free pass and could reach the peninsula and therefore Europe was on the networks. The causes now being sought: the Supreme Court ruling, Sánchez’s trip to Algiers, Spanish nationality for the Sahrawis of 1976, or the fight for the World Cup final in four years, were known.
Pedro Sánchez, already in Ceuta when the city was full of immigrants, described what happened as a “violation of Spain’s territorial integrity” and pointed to the mafias as responsible for the biggest migratory crisis Spain has experienced. Okay, agreed, but was the intention of those mafias to violate Spain’s territorial integrity? Or to get rich. It seems more logical to think that the interest in violating a country’s territorial integrity lies with the authorities of another, not with tens of thousands of young people who were swept away by social networks. I know the government and diplomacy insist that Morocco should not be pointed to as the main responsible party, but it is not necessary to say so many times that its behavior is that of a reliable partner. It is also not the “invasion” that Feijóo denounced, because a country is invaded to stay and control it, not to return the same way within 24 hours.
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And there are also those who have wanted to take advantage of these serious events to push their own agenda, and they all come from the same side. From Trump to Meloni, passing through the far-right Interior Minister of Finland, they have brought the crisis to Europe, when their borders were never in danger. Ceuta and Melilla belong to the Schengen area, which allows free movement through 29 countries, but they have a special regime that requires control when leaving the cities, so no one can travel to the peninsula, from where they could move to other countries, without identifying themselves to the National Police. Shipping companies and airlines are required to verify documents. Anything else to say?
And as if we were not enough, the Spanish far-right has even traveled to Ceuta to heat up the atmosphere, from Abascal to Alvise, passing through Vito Quiles, who has abandoned his intention to make us believe he is a journalist, and the sinister Núcleo Nacional. We have seen how a Vox deputy encouraged the people of Ceuta to insult the Prime Minister, but also how the people of Ceuta stood up to some of these characters shouting “Ceuta united and not divided” and having to clarify: “I am Spanish, Spanish, Spanish,” even if they wear a djellaba. If they love Spain so much, they should take their dirty hands off.
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