Why Did Ceuta's Civilian Guards Open a Gate of the Border with Morocco?
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The lack of troops and clear instructions from the Interior provoked on July 30 moments of tension among the agents, who were overwhelmed. More information: "Do not act and open the doors": the only order received by the 6 border policemen of Ceuta whose "valent" praised Sánchez
Betrayal to the Homeland. Did Major General Luis Fernández Herrero call JEMAD or Margarita Robles asking for orders? Why didn’t the 3,000 soldiers stationed in Ceuta move a finger to prevent the invasion? Two companies deployed in the Tarajal would have been enough to seamlessly plug the border. Without firing a shot. [...]
The border device had six Aliens agents and a subgroup of twelve riot control officers to cover the Tarajal and its immediate vicinity.
The Unified Association of Civil Guards maintains that the Tarajal gate separated two Spanish enclosures and that opening it avoided a tragedy during the entrance on July 30.
On July 30 everything went wrong in Ceuta. Those who had to intervene seemed to know the extent of what was coming on the border, but incongruously there were not enough means, nor reinforcements and, more serious, not even a minimum coordination, a superior command that gave clear orders to act. [...] The entrance The embarrassing confrontation between Police and Civil Guard on the day of the invasion of Ceuta: where was Interior? appears first…
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