Overview
- The Council of Ministers announced on Tuesday that it will declassify every intelligence and alert report received between July 1 and August 1 about the spike in arrivals to Ceuta and make the documents public about 24 hours after declassification.
- Judge María Tardón of the Audiencia Nacional has taken the criminal probe and cites a CENIF report that finds signs of facilitation from Moroccan soil while framing the July 30–31 mass entry as an attack on Spain’s territorial integrity.
- The government and Interior Minister Fernando Grande‑Marlaska say the July reports were routine and did not predict the scale of the incident, and they dispute the CENIF conclusions; Defence officials maintain there were prior warnings, exposing an inter‑agency split.
- Officials report roughly 70,000–80,000 people entered Ceuta on July 30–31 and that most returned to Morocco in the days that followed, a flow accelerated in part by a Supreme Court ruling limiting offshore returns.
- The release could sharpen political debate with the opposition calling for attribution to Rabat, raise diplomatic strains over shared intelligence, and provide new material for the judge’s inquiry and public scrutiny of operational decisions.