The declassification of documents related to the Ceuta crisis intensified the internal conflict in the Spanish government, centered on the warnings that the National Intelligence Center (CNI) issued or did not issue before the migratory avalanche in the Spanish city. This situation created a completely unprecedented confrontation, since Moncloa disavowed the interpretation that stems from the very documents it itself declassified.
The tensions between the Defense and Interior ministries, which seemed to be losing intensity and fading into the background, reignited with the release of these papers. The internal clash became more visible after the decision to declassify the documents, exposing the internal divergences over the CNI's actions.
Moncloa, the seat of the Spanish executive, positioned itself against the reading that the declassified documents seem to suggest, thus contradicting the interpretation that can be drawn from them. This episode marks an unusual moment in Spanish politics, where the government itself was forced to refute the narrative that emerges from the materials it itself decided to make public.
