The chief of staff to the Spanish government's delegate in Ceuta, Gonzalo Sanz, has resigned from his position, the latest episode in an ongoing controversy over what Spanish authorities may have known ahead of the mass arrival of migrants into the North African exclave in late July.
The resignation has not yet been officially confirmed by sources at the Government Delegation.
Sanz said he received a warning from the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) on 29 July, in which he was alerted to messages circulating on social media in groups with a combined 180,000 members. The warning came one day before the mass arrival of migrants into Ceuta from Morocco.
According to his account, Sanz passed that information on to the government's delegate, Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano, that same day.
He said there was an obvious "inconsistency" between this claim and the various statements the delegate has made to different media outlets, in which he insisted he was not aware of the warning until the government declassified the reports on the crisis.
