The Ceuta crisis questions a border on which the Interior Ministry has spent more than 37 million euros since 2019
El ministerio, que ha gastado otros 42,7 millones en reforzar el perímetro de Melilla, aún no ha presupuestado la instalación de la barrera marítima de El Tarajal
The crisis triggered on July 30 by the irregular entry of at least 72,000 migrants swimming into Ceuta has focused attention on the supposed vulnerability of the border with Morocco in this autonomous city. An internal report from the Ministry of the Interior, which EL PAÍS has had access to, details that since 2019, after Pedro Sánchez arrived at the Moncloa Palace, the Government has invested 37.4 million in the modernization and improvement of the perimeter and border posts in this town, and 42.7 million in those in Melilla.
In total, 80.1 million euros in projects already carried out or in the process of execution, according to the “financial balance” included. The document details that, before the tragedy that has cost the lives of more than 80 people in Spain, other actions were planned for 99 million in both locations, most of them to renovate old facilities of the National Police and the Civil Guard.
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