At the entrance of the Embolsamiento parking lot, an asphalted area to ease traffic congestion in Ceuta, a huge sign welcomes all vehicles that usually wait for hours before crossing to Morocco: “Honking prohibited, hospital zone.” But there, around the esplanade, equipped with military tents to accommodate immigrants, no honking has been heard for weeks. From the vehicles, police or medical, passing through the Loma Colmenar neighborhood, only siren sounds come out. Also the sound of some shots fired into the air. The noise that drives the neighbors crazy is the constant shouting of hundreds of Moroccans who have settled at the foot of their homes waiting to enter the enclosure to get a bed to sleep.

The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has demanded that the director of the National Police, Francisco Pardo, inform him “as soon as possible” about the content of a report that the National Immigration and Borders Center (CENIF) would have sent to the National Court attributing the massive assault on the Ceuta border to Morocco. In a letter sent last night, which La Vanguardia has had access to, the Interior Minister reminds Pardo that, if the information detailing that Moroccan gendarmes planned and executed the entry is true, it should have been “immediately made available to the members of the National Security Council.”

The Federation of Municipalities and Provinces has called for gatherings this evening at 8 PM in front of all municipal offices in Spain in support of Ceuta, which, precisely, celebrates its day today.

Brussels has no evidence of an alleged Russian involvement in a disinformation campaign that would have caused the migration crisis in Ceuta, as claimed by Pedro Sánchez’s government, but it does believe that it is trying to “take advantage” of the complicated situation in which the autonomous city finds itself after the massive crossing it experienced at the end of July.