Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday insisted there was no "solid proof" Morocco orchestrated July's migrant rush into Ceuta, after a police report highlighted multiple failings by Moroccan security forces.
But the Socialist leader slammed "unacceptable" Moroccan government comments about Ceuta since the crisis began, in rare public criticism of neighbouring Rabat which claims the north African enclave.
Sánchez also risked inflaming delicate relations with Morocco by revealing the government had urged King Felipe VI to visit Ceuta and Spain's other north African territory of Melilla.
More than 70,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta from Morocco on July 30th and 31st in an unprecedented surge that left scores dead, most by drowning as they tried to swim around a breakwater.
The leftist government has consistently avoided blaming Morocco, with which it has spent years trying to improve historically complicated relations -- notably over the status of Ceuta and Melilla.
