Spanish Official Resigns Amid Questions over Ceuta Migrant Warnings
The resignation follows 40 declassified reports and conflicting accounts over whether authorities were warned before 1,000 migrants entered Ceuta.
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Ceuta Official Resigns After CNI Warning Over Mass Migration Emerges
Gonzalo Sanz, chief of staff to the Spanish government’s delegate in Ceuta, resigned Friday after declassified documents showed that Spain’s National Intelligence Center (CNI) had warned him about a possible mass border crossing shortly before the migration crisis that hit the Spanish enclave in late July.
Ceuta Crisis Makes First Political Victim: Chief of Staff Resigns After CNI Documents Contradict Him
Confidential documents show that Gonzalo Sanz knew of the possibility of invasion of Ceuta by migrants, but did not inform his superior. The chief of staff resigned, but rejected the accusation.
In the notes of the CNI made public by the government, is included a conversation that Gonzalo Sanz had for WhatsApp with a member of the center, of whose content the delegate of the government, Miguel Ángel Pérez, assured that he had no knowledge
Spanish official resigns amid questions over Ceuta migrant warnings
Gonzalo Sanz's resignation comes just two days after the government made public 40 declassified reports containing communications involving the National Intelligence Centre, the Government Delegation in Ceuta and the Civil Guard.
Gonzalo Sanz, Chief of Staff of the Government Delegation in Ceuta, resigned after a WhatsApp conversation was made public where the CNI warned of the invasion.
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