Spain's police chief, Francisco Pardo, has told Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska that there is no police report attributing to Moroccan security forces the planning or execution of the events in Ceuta at the end of July.
The response comes after Marlaska asked police to clarify a leaked report in which Spanish police blamed Moroccan security forces for orchestrating a mass entry of migrants to the enclave of Ceuta last week, ministry sources said on Wednesday.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Monday that Morocco was not responsible, instead accusing Israel, Russia and the far right of spreading disinformation about the mass entry of around 70,000 migrants into Ceuta.
Sánchez told Cadena SER radio that "no intelligence service with which the Spanish government normally cooperates" had suggested "any involvement in one way or another of the Moroccan authorities."
Online newspaper El Español reported on Tuesday that Spain's National Centre for Immigration and Borders (CENIF) said the incident "was guided by Moroccan security forces...with an objective other than migration" in an explosive leaked report.
