The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, avoided applauding this Thursday, as the rest of the Government bench did, in Congress when Pedro Sánchez announced that his Executive would publish the reports from the Police and Spanish intelligence about the prior warnings of the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta.
The great political debate at the start of the term moves in the realm of nuances, omissions, and calculated silences. Four weeks after the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, left the Marivent palace, assuring that Felipe VI was “committed to visiting Ceuta,” the conflicting versions between the Executive and the Royal House have placed the trip in an uncomfortable no-man’s land. Everyone assumes it will happen, but no one sets a date for a visit whose uncertainty is beginning to become a wear for Moncloa.
The junior partner of the coalition government, Sumar, has clearly distanced itself from the socialist wing and has directly pointed to Morocco, with the collaboration of the United States and Israel, as provoking the massive crossing of the Ceuta border to bring down the government and has demanded the transfer to the Peninsula of the thousands of people, particularly minors, who are still in the autonomous city.
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has attacked Pedro Sánchez, who gave explanations this Thursday about his management of the Ceuta crisis. The leader of the PP has called for Sánchez’s resignation for being “complicit” or “incompetent” in the crossing of more than 70,000 people to Ceuta from Morocco and has warned: “He will pay for it in the courts and the polls.”
Pedro Sánchez appeared this Thursday before the plenary session of the Congress of Deputies to provide explanations about the management of the Ceuta crisis following the massive entry of 72,000 people from Morocco and a day after a police report emerged pointing to possible involvement of Moroccan agents in the development of the assault. Before a chamber awaiting the responsibilities of the neighboring country for the events that occurred on July 30 and 31 and the possible warnings received by the Government, the head of government defended that “it cannot be concluded” that the massive entry was “designed by Morocco,” although he admitted that it will be necessary to investigate whether there was “inaction or incapacity” on the part of the Moroccan authorities.
Three civil guards were injured this Wednesday when their patrol boat was rammed by a drug-running speedboat that was intercepted at Cabo Cope, in the municipality of Águilas, and whose two occupants have been arrested.
The case dividing the United States is stuck in court. The jurors in the trial against Lindsay Clancy, the mother accused of killing her three children, informed the judge this Wednesday that they had reached a deadlock for the second time, a day after sending the judge a first note stating that they were unable to reach an agreement.
The juvenile judge on duty in Barcelona ordered yesterday the detention in a closed regime of the two teenagers aged 15 and 16 arrested in the early hours of Tuesday for the stabbing death of Carles Vilajosana, 45 years old, in Manresa. The crime has shocked the Bages region, where the victim was actively involved in cultural and social life. Hours before dying, he had been with his two twin sons at the correfoc that marked the end of a major festival that had taken place without incidents.
In the long run, societies end up judging actions better than intentions, realities better than speeches. Time strips words bare and puts deeds in their place. It is no longer enough to pretend, deceive, or promise to maintain popular favor. These are words taken from…
A report from the National Police yesterday called into question the official Government account of Morocco’s involvement in the invasion suffered in Ceuta at the end of July. “There is no information from the State security forces, the CNI, or any center of…
