Almost a month after the “attack on Spain’s territorial integrity,” as Pedro Sánchez described what happened on July 30, when a mob managed to enter Ceuta illegally from Morocco, the Government will give explanations in Congress. Or so it is expected. Al…
Throughout this week and next, eight government ministers will appear before the Congress of Deputies to provide explanations in their respective committees about the crisis that has been experienced in Ceuta throughout the entire month of August and that still continues today. La Vanguardia, which has closely followed the conflict since it broke out on July 30, when thousands of people jumped the El Tarajal fence, has compiled a list of 30 questions that the ministers should answer in their appearances.
A group of 20 French intellectuals has promoted a manifesto addressed to Presidents Pedro Sánchez and Emmanuel Macron to request the release of Algerian journalist and opposition figure Ayoub Aïssiou, who was detained on July 25 at Barcelona airport due to a claim from his country investigating him for alleged forgery of public documents and money laundering. However, his defense denounces “political persecution” and the National Court will have to decide in the coming days whether to extradite him to Algeria.
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has requested the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, to decree the lockdown in Ceuta due to “health risk” in the face of infectious diseases such as scabies or tuberculosis that have been detected after the massive entry of “more than 70,000 illegal migrants” at the end of July.
Pedro Sánchez closed last July this “hazardous” political course immersed, as always, in the accelerated management of an endless succession of unforeseen crises, from the new wave of summer fires to the migratory avalanche that Ceuta suffered, with diplomatic consequences for Spain, while judicial and police investigations continue to hover around his political and family environment. The President of the Government has faced during the August holiday break a bulky portfolio full of pending duties for September.
The Government has issued a statement in which it firmly rejects Morocco’s claims over the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, which, it recalls, are part of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Spain and an integral part of the EU territory.
The Spanish Government has conveyed this Friday to Morocco its “categorical rejection” of that country’s claims over the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, which, it recalls, are part of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Spain and an integral part of the EU territory.
As the days go by, the resources to describe a situation that has been repeated since more than 70,000 people irregularly entered Ceuta from Morocco through the El Tarajal beach on July 30 are running out.
Two investigations have dismantled, with the arrest of five people, two organizations allegedly dedicated to the illicit trafficking of migrants from Ceuta to the Peninsula, which used small boats and charged up to 9,000 euros.
Tension in the European Social Democratic family. The behavior of the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, aligning herself with the Italian Giorgia Meloni in the Ceuta migration crisis, seems to have been the last straw. The Vice President of the European Parliament and member of the PSC-PSOE, Javi López, and the Foreign Affairs head of the Italian Democratic Party (PD), Beppe Provenzano, have formally protested to the Party of European Socialists (PES) over her unsupportive attitude, in a very unusual public gesture within the same political family. It is not very common for such criticism to be raised and for the issue to be requested to be addressed in the governing bodies.