Marlaska insists that the CNI did not alert to a massive arrival of migrants in Ceuta
El ministro del Interior eleva a 72.000 el número de personas que cruzaron irregularmente la frontera de El Tarajal y afirma que ya han retornado a Marruecos 70.000
Neither the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) nor any other intelligence service, Spanish or from the European Union (EU). The Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has again insisted this Tuesday that the Government did not receive any report or prior alert that tens of thousands of migrants were going to cross the border of El Tarajal, in Ceuta, by swimming last Thursday.
In a press conference after the emergency meeting he held with the other EU Interior Ministers, Grande-Marlaska has admitted that in the previous days there were warnings that, as is usual in the summer, there could be “an increase, a rise” in the number of irregular sea entries in the autonomous city and that on this occasion they could be “encouraged” by the Supreme Court ruling in early July that prohibited the hot returns of those people who entered precisely by swimming in the autonomous cities.
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