Judge Juan Carlos Peinado, the instructor of the case of Begoña Gómez, wife of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, is facing a growing number of complaints. The pseudo-union Manos Limpias is the latest in a long list to denounce the magistrate’s actions.
The judge of the National Court María Tardón has decided to broaden the range of information before deciding whether to initiate a formal investigation into what happened in Ceuta. Initially, she limited herself to asking the Police if they had data on who might have been behind the massive entry of migrants, which already amounts to 70,000, in case there was a plan to attack the integrity of the State. However, ex officio, she has also decided to see what is happening with the deceased.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Tetouan has prosecuted 25 people for crimes related to the organization of irregular crossings or the transportation of passengers without a license in the context of the entry last Thursday of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Morocco to the autonomous city of Ceuta.
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.
The extraordinary meeting of EU interior ministers was not the showdown many anticipated, but a delicate exercise in political balance. The meeting, requested by 22 Member States at the initiative of Italy and Denmark following the Ceuta migration crisis, ended with a declaration of principles but, as expected, without concrete decisions. Italy eased tensions with Pedro Sánchez’s government but now proposes that the EU lead the relationship with Morocco to contain migratory surges at the southern border.
The spokesperson for Junts in Congress, Miriam Nogueras, warned this Tuesday that they will not give “a single vote” to the Government if Catalonia is not excluded from the transfer to the autonomous communities of unaccompanied minor migrants who arrived in Ceuta during last week’s migration crisis.
Manuel Gavira, Vox representative in Andalusia, will assume responsibilities for gender violence in the community in the new government of the Junta, as part of its new Ministry of Tourism, Justice, Deregulation, and Local Administration.
Five days after the entry of more than 70,000 immigrants into Ceuta from Morocco, there are still consequences. One of them is the management of the migrant minors who have remained in the autonomous city, a circumstance that could end up reopening the regional debate about their reception since both Ceuta and Melilla already have their capacity exceeded. In this regard, the PP has left in the air what it will do, although Miguel Tellado has suggested that they will reject the reception.
The Interior Ministers of the European Union (EU) have expressed their “firm solidarity” with Spain following the migration crisis in Ceuta and have emphasized the need to “continue fighting tirelessly” against migrant trafficking networks, as well as to improve prevention capacity in such situations.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has assured that the meeting with his counterparts from the European Union who had requested to put limits on the Schengen area due to the migratory crisis in Ceuta has been carried out in a “satisfactory” manner for Spain, once it was explained at the meeting that the autonomous city has a “special regime” since 1991, which prevents anyone from leaving “without effective documentary control.”