Spain's defence and interior ministers have made conflicting statements about the work of the Spanish intelligence services
MADRID – Infighting within the Spanish government is intensifying as Pedro Sánchez’s key ministers have made contradictory statements about whether Spanish secret services did or did not foresee the influx of migrants to Ceuta in late July.
The last to intervene was Ángel Víctor Torres, Spain’s territorial policy minister and recently appointed by Sánchez to coordinate the Ceuta crisis response.
“There was no warning that we would see tens of thousands of people arriving in Ceuta,” Torres told radio network Cadena Ser on Wednesday.
He backed a previous declaration by Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who said that the CNI – Spain’s intelligence agency in charge of both domestic and foreign intelligence – “gave no warnings ” about the influx of some 80,000 migrants into the small Spanish exclave in North Africa.
