The Attorney General of the State, Teresa Peramato, has instructed the delegated prosecutors of the autonomous communities to intervene if a region refuses to take in unaccompanied migrant minors from Ceuta who are referred to their protection system.
The Government threatened Italy this Friday with “proportional measures” if it maintains border controls with Spain that it reintroduced on August 1 due to the massive and irregular entry of immigrants in Ceuta on July 30, according to a statement from the Executive, which describes that measure, “unprecedented in recent history,” as “unfair.”
The Secretary General of the PSOE of Madrid and Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Administration, Óscar López, announced this Friday that the PSOE-M will file a complaint with the Public Prosecutor’s Office for economic crimes against the board of directors of the regional public company Planifica Madrid for the purchase of the penthouse in Chamberí.
The Government has accepted the requests for appearances of four ministers in Congress for the end of August – between August 25 and 28 – and, shortly after, the PP has responded by summoning three of those Government members to give explanations about the crisis triggered in Ceuta starting August 12. Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party has also been requesting since July 31 that Pedro Sánchez appear to answer deputies’ questions about the entry of more than 70,000 immigrants from Morocco into Ceuta.
One week after the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta, the authorities and NGOs are working to identify the minors who remain in the autonomous city, many of them on the street and without shelter, at the mercy of the help they receive from organizations, administrations, and neighbors, who have also organized to collaborate.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, and the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, will appear at their own request and in an extraordinary session at the end of this month before the Interior, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and National Security committees of the Congress respectively, to report on the management within the scope of their competencies regarding the massive entry of immigrants in Ceuta on July 30 and following days, according to sources from the Presidency.
The King and the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, are holding a meeting this afternoon at the Marivent palace, with which, in addition to analyzing the crisis caused by the illegal entry into the autonomous city of more than 70,000 people from Morocco, the head of State wants to express the support of the Crown and solidarity with the people of Ceuta.
The president of the autonomous city of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, has asked the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs of the European Parliament to secure the border of Morocco with the autonomous city of Ceuta to prevent the scenes of last week from happening again.
The reception of migrant minors was the cause of the breakdown of the regional governments of PP and Vox in July 2024, and the entry into Ceuta of more than 70,000 immigrants from Morocco – including minors among them – could put the alliance between the two parties to the test in four territories – Extremadura, Aragón, Castilla y León, and Andalusia. For now, PP and Vox have avoided confrontation and have focused on targeting Pedro Sánchez’s government for its management.
La Oficina Antifrau de Catalunya (OAC) has opened a file against the mayor of Ripoll (Girona), Sílvia Orriols, for alleged irregularities in the hiring of her daughter as a local police officer. The procedure at the OAC responds to a complaint, which has been accepted for processing and now moves to an investigation phase (preliminary evaluation phase of plausibility).
