Ceuta remains the whirlwind that can engulf the Spanish Government. The declassification of Intelligence documents to try to prove that the Executive did not receive a clear warning about what could happen at the end of July has provided more information about the events in Ceuta, but it has not resolved the confusion about the behavior of state mechanisms on both sides of the border.
Save yourselves. Hours after the magistrate of the National Court María Tardón requested the Government for the declassified documents on the Ceuta crisis, the Government delegate in the autonomous city, Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano, asked for the head of his Chief of Staff, Gonzalo Sanz, for not informing him earlier about the massive crossing after a member of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) had told him that a call to storm the border was being stirred up on social networks. Sanz – after a meeting of pressures – submitted his resignation yesterday, but in the letter sent to the Government Delegation he wanted to convey, as a warning, two messages that complicate the Government’s narrative: that he did transmit to his boss what the Spanish spy had told him the afternoon before the avalanche and that “there are reports” proving that warnings were made to different ministries.
In April 2017, Josep Lluís Trapero took office as chief of the Mossos in an unusual ceremony at the Palau de la Generalitat. There was overbooking: president Carles Puigdemont, the president of the Parliament Carme Forcadell, vice president Oriol Junqueras, and seven…
Felipe VI traveled on the morning of this Friday to the Naval Base of Rota, where the commemorative event of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States took place, in which nearly 3,000 people died. Spanish and American military personnel paid tribute to the victims in a joint ceremony held every year to remember one of the greatest terrorist attacks in history.
A fire at the gates of the Tarajal warehouses, where the immigrants who remain in Ceuta after the mass crossing have set up a settlement, burned down dozens of shacks early this morning. In this part of the autonomous city, mainly Moroccan families with young children camp, but according to initial reports there are no injuries. In the burned area, several witnesses told La Vanguardia that the flames may have been caused by candles, which a group of immigrants had brought from the monument to the fallen in Plaza de África, which has been filled with them since the beginning of the crisis.
First resignation in Ceuta since the irregular entry of immigrants on July 29. And among the reasons is not the management of the crisis, but an alleged discrepancy of versions about the warnings of the avalanche at the border. The chief of staff of the Government delegate in the autonomous city, Gonzalo Sanz, has submitted his resignation through a letter in which he assures that the warning that an agent of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) transmitted to him via WhatsApp the day before the massive crossing was indeed passed on to the delegate himself, Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano, who denied before the media having been aware of these communications.
The president of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, stated this Friday that the central Government downplayed the warnings conveyed by the City about the increasing migratory pressure in the days prior to the massive entry of people from Morocco and affirmed that from Moncloa they even asked him to stop calling because he was becoming “very annoying.”
Alberto Núñez Feijóo has sent a message through social media to wish Catalunya a good Diada. The leader of the PP has claimed the capabilities of the autonomy and, for that reason, has asked that it stop being a “bargaining chip” for national political agreements that may end up prioritizing party interests over those of the Catalans themselves.
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Cordiality and good manners presided over the meeting between José Montilla and Artur Mas in La Vanguardia. Smiles, some complicity, and no reproaches. They are politicians from before the current political polarization. Not for nothing, as they made sure to remind, despite their…
