The Ceuta crisis is becoming a nightmare for Pedro Sánchez’s Government. The Executive seems to be in a quagmire where the more it moves, the more it seems to be swallowed down. It needs to find a solution to get out of the mud or chaos will end up devouring it.
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The story started badly due to the intelligence services’ failure to detect the migrant invasion in time. The declassification made this week of the different materials prepared by the various security teams has only further exposed them. It was a risky decision in the name of transparency, but the result has not been the best for the Government. Because, if information has not been hidden from us, it does not seem very serious that the formal warning from the CNI was only through a WhatsApp message to a chief of staff of a Government delegate. And that is what we highlighted on our Thursday cover.
Now this official has resigned because his version and that of his boss do not match. The delegate says that his chief of staff did not warn him of this message. We also do not know if the CNI agent merely sent this simple WhatsApp or escalated the information to the head of his intelligence service, which would allow more people to be aware of the impending crisis.
But apart from these obvious communication errors, the Government is taking longer than necessary to bring order to the chaos in Ceuta and prevent disturbances in the autonomous city. The Ceuta president, Juan Jesús Vivas, is accused of hindering the search for spaces to house the migrants and also of stirring up the population. In any case, the Executive cannot be at the mercy of this and has regulatory and legal capacity to enforce its decisions. In the end, it imposed the location of an improvised camp at the port of Ceuta, due to the delay in finding alternative spaces, but it took five weeks to do so.
Days go by and Ceuta remains a powder keg due to the overcrowding of migrants. Just yesterday about 40 shacks were burned down by an accidental fire. The Government’s wear is growing every day and the solution does not seem near.
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