Spain: More Testimony of Moroccan Government Involvement in Ceuta Invasion

Hat tip Gates of Vienna and The Hungarian Conservative

We have been translating articles from Spanish concerning the July 30 mass migrant invasion of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the North African coast which occurred on July 30. Investigation by Spanish authorities reveals that Moroccan police and military officers were massively involved in herding the migrants into Ceuta including those who swam, and in many cases drowned.

Now 4 Moroccan witnesses, migrants who participated in the crossing and are cooperating with Spanish authorities, have testified before a Spanish judge. They are corroborating the fact that Moroccan officials directed the crossings, in some cases herding people into the sea, even ignoring people drowning in front of them.

The below article from El Español is translated by Fousesquawk.   

Caption: Protected witnesses identify Moroccan police chiefs to judge

“They were pushing us toward Ceuta ‘! Get in there now!’”

“There were many deaths, and the auxiliary forces of Morocco didn’t do anything, they let the people pass,” one of them declared to CENIF

More information: The police identify two high-ranking Moroccan police officials on the day of the assault, one of them “giving directions” to the migrants.

Four of the approximately 100,000 Moroccans who gained access to Ceuta from Castillejo (Morocco) at the end of last July yesterday identified more than a dozen high-ranking police officials before the judge of the National Court, Maria Tardon, who allowed this massive entry, and, in some cases, gave instructions to the immigrants and even “pushed ” some of them toward the water, some of them said. 

Those identifications are in addition to those already made of the prefect of police of the Tetuan region, Mohamed El Oalidi, and the supervisor general of M’diq-Fnideq (Rincon-Castillejos), Abdel Fattah El Sayed  El Radi.

Both commanders, who are in charge of the direction and supervision of the actions of the members of DGSN- General Directorate of National Security- and of the Moroccan Auxiliary Forces in the region, were in Castillejos on the days of July 30-31.

Yesterday, the magistrate took statements from 4 new witnesses to whom she applied a statute of protection. Previously, they had appeared before investigators of the National Center of Immigration and the Borders (CENIF).

Their statements confirm the conclusions of the CENIF report. It stated that there was an “active guidance of the mass toward the places of passage on the part of these forces and agencies of Moroccan security”. 

One of the protected witnesses stated to CENIF that at 10 in the morning of July 30, a friend of his made a video call from Ceuta telling him that he had succeeded in entering.

“I got my mother and my brother, and we left for Castillejos,” he related.

They headed for the border and he saw, “police and soldiers,” some in uniform. others in plain clothes.

“One of those in uniform, who seemed to be of higher rank, with a uniform I had never seen before, gave an order to the rest of the soldiers, who quickly came down and began to push the people into the water.”

In response to follow up questions from the CENIF investigators, the witness stated that, “he was sure they received orders because he could hear them on their radios and because from then on, they were told, ‘get in the water or leave from here.’”.

In a file he was shown, this young man recognized one of the authorities who was “pushing the people forward”. 

“Get in! Get in!’, he was shouting. I looked right in his face because he pushed my mother and almost threw her to the ground.”

“My mother, my brother and I bowed our heads and we continued on,” he added.

Caption: Moroccan officer who was pushing immigrants into the water to (go) to Ceuta, according to a protected witness. 

He was not the only police commander this witness identified. He also recognized another authority, “who was on the side of the fence and was directing the people as I passed by there.”

This Moroccan officer, “was standing, directing the people, making gestures with his hands and shouting, ‘Forward’ and ‘move, move”.

At his side were two other men, one with a backpack, “who was also telling the people to advance”.

“He was shouting that he didn’t want to see anyone in the sand, that they should either go in the water or go back,” he stated.  

Caption: “Just in front, people were drowning,” declared a witness.

“Just in front of them,” the witness recalled , “there were people drowning and both he (the identified officer) and the other two just stood standing there ignoring them, on the contrary shouting things like,  ‘Come on, take advantage now!”‘

In another file, the same witness recognized the “chief of the anti-riot (police)” of Tetuan. CENIF has identified him as the commander of the Mobile Law Enforcement Groups.

Caption: Police commander identified as chief of Tetuan anti-riot police.

At this point, they were regulating the flow of people and, “were controlling at all times the number of people who were going to the border,” with Ceuta.

“Between the two traffic circles, the one at the Hotel Senator, and the last one before the Customs, the agents had a fence set up, and this man was the head of all of them. When they wanted, they would open the fence and gave the order for the people to pass. When 400 people had passed, they gave the order to close it and the people stopped,” he described. 

“Many dead”

Another of the witnesses to the entry of Ceuta confirmed that on July 30, on the Moroccan coast near Ceuta, he saw, “many dead in a row” and “several officers of the Auxiliary Forces who did nothing”.

“They allowed the people to pass and only covered up the corpses when the people took them out of the sea,” he claimed.

This man added that he saw, “at least three guys of Moroccan appearance” dressed in street clothes, who offered floatation devices to the people for 10-20 dirhams.

They were black, tire-shaped flotation devices with white or grey print.

According to his testimony, these persons, also in exchange for money, went into the sea to accompany the immigrants to the Ceuta coast and then returned to the Moroccan zone. “This would occur in collusion with the Auxiliary Forces, with whom they would share the money.”

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