The National Court has requested a report from the National Police on the “mass irregular entry” of migrants in Ceuta in recent days to determine whether it was a “concerted or directed action” by some “criminal group.” Judge María Tardón made this request before deciding whether the National Court has jurisdiction to investigate the events reported by the Iustitia Europa party regarding the mass entry into the autonomous city of people coming from Morocco last week.
The magistrate of the National Court has issued an order, accessed by EL PAÍS, initiating preliminary proceedings after receiving the party’s complaint, which requests an investigation into “crimes against state security, crimes against the nation, facilitation of illegal immigration and human trafficking, criminal organization, and failure to fulfill the duty to prosecute crimes.” In the complaint, the entity emphasized that the “mobilization” of migrants from Morocco to Ceuta “cannot be classified as an ordinary or spontaneous migratory phenomenon” due to the “temporal dimension and the concentration of thousands of individuals simultaneously throwing themselves into the sea from the Moroccan coasts.” “We are facing an instrumentalization of migratory flows that, due to their volume and manner of execution, represents an overwhelming of the capacities of the state security forces and bodies and reception services, compromising territorial integrity and public security at an external border of the European Union,” the organization detailed.
In her resolution, and before “deciding on the criminal jurisdiction of the National Court” to investigate the reported events, the magistrate requests from the General Immigration and Borders Commissariat (UCRIF) of the National Police a report on “the mass irregular entry of citizens from Moroccan territory that has taken place in Ceuta in recent days, especially on July 30 and 31” with the aim of finding out whether it is “a concerted or directed action by some organization or criminal group.” Tardón has also asked the Police to report on who “may have participated in such actions” or have knowledge about them.
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The president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, indicated that the arrival of tens of thousands of people to the autonomous city last week meant that Ceuta was “a besieged city.” Of the thousands of immigrants who entered massively, more than 70,000 have already returned to Morocco. “It is difficult to call that a migratory crisis. People had the perception that this, if not orchestrated, was favored or allowed by Morocco,” Vivas commented in an interview with EL PAÍS. In a statement, the Moroccan government reported that it has recovered 11 bodies in its waters after the border episode, adding to the 88 dead accumulated in the improvised morgue of the former military hospital of the Spanish autonomous city.
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