The judge investigating the Ceuta crisis summons as witnesses Vivas and the former chief of staff of the government delegation

MadridThe National Court judge in charge of the case, María Tardón, has summoned the president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, and the former chief of staff of the Spanish government delegation in that city, Gonzalo Sanz, to testify as witnesses on September 30 and October 1, respectively. In addition, she is also requesting the "alerts and risk analyses" that may have been issued by police and military agencies warning of the mass entry on July 30 and 31. If they existed, the magistrate wants to know who the recipients were and the means used to send them, as well as the date and time.

This has not been the only judicial development this Wednesday. The Ceuta Public Prosecutor's Office has also made a move and has advocated for investigating whether there is alleged responsibility on the part of the Spanish government delegate, Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano, in the mass entry of migrants, since it was the delegation of the autonomous city that received the notice of the calls to cross the border through the CNI.

Specifically, it seeks to clarify whether there were "decisions or omissions that could have influenced the development of events." This was stated by the public prosecutor's office in a document sent to the National Court a few weeks ago, to which Europa Press has had access, in which it also advocated for Judge María Tardón to lead the entire investigation—rather than the courts of Ceuta. Sources from the State Attorney General's Office have clarified that it is a report by the chief prosecutor of Ceuta regarding who is competent to investigate the facts and that the public prosecutor's office "has not made any statement on the merits of the matter."

"The investigation into the conduct of the government delegate requires examining together the circumstances in which the massive entry of people swimming took place, the information available to the Spanish authorities, the forecasts and measures adopted before the arrival of the people to the coast of Ceuta, the organization of surveillance, containment, assistance and reception devices, the orders, instructions or decisions issued by the competent authorities and the possible existence of relevant omissions in terms of prevention, assistance or protection," the Ceuta prosecutor pointed out in the document.

In fact, at the Ceuta delegation, a resignation has already taken place due to these events. The chief of staff for Pérez Triano, Gonzalo Sanz, resigned afterthe declassification of the Ceuta documents by the Spanish government, in which there was a WhatsApp conversation with the CNI warning him of calls reaching 180,000 people on the day of the Moroccan throne. Pérez Triano's version is that the information did not reach him, but his chief of staff says it did. Be that as it may, the Spanish government maintains that these alerts, as well as others from the police, cannot be considered solid warnings of what happened, as they insist that neither the CNI nor the Civil Guard nor the National Police foresaw the "magnitude" of the crisis.