Five days, with their long sleepless nights, without knowing anything about them. Families who have no news of their young people who went to Ceuta, following the call that the border to Spain was open, are flooding social networks with photographs of the missing. There is one of Mohamed Afasi, in swim trunks, with a towel around his neck: he disappeared in the sea at the age of nine while trying to swim around the breakwater with his mother. There is another of the teenager Nada-AlShiba, who was lost track of in the early hours of the mass jump through which 72,000 people entered at once.

Half-hearted contrition for the infiltration of agents from the Mossos de Esquadra information police station in a teachers’ union assembly. Neither mea culpa nor chest beating. The interior minister, Núria Parlon, and the director general of the Police, Josep Lluís…

The open crisis within the Mossos d’Esquadra due to the infiltration of two agents in a teachers’ assembly has forced the police director, Josep Lluís Trapero, and the senior officers of the force to meet with the mossos’ unions to calm tensions. Among the workers’ representatives, it was not well received that Trapero announced on Wednesday the opening of a confidential investigation that questioned the agents’ actions, who claim that they comply with current regulations.

“Do not risk their lives, their money, their future in an adventure doomed to failure.” On his first official visit to the autonomous city of Ceuta – the first ever by a Foreign Minister in the history of Spain – José Manuel Albares delivered a strong message this Tuesday to those planning to cross illegally into Ceuta, Melilla, or the Peninsula, guaranteeing that “even the last person who has entered irregularly will be returned to Morocco.”