Judge orders unprecedented police and intelligence mobilization to probe Ceuta migrant surge

María Tardón, a judge of the Audiencia Nacional, authorized a dozen police units and six Guardia Civil formations, together with three intelligence agencies, to investigate the massive entry of between 75,000 and 85,000 migrants into Ceuta on 30 and 31 July. The orders focus heavily on the Policía Nacional and the Centro Nacional de Inmigración y Fronteras (CENIF), which must produce five reports covering digital coordination, phone numbers, social-media profiles, geolocation and links between organizers and participants.

The magistrate also called for judicial requests to Meta and Google for user data, and for biometric and facial-recognition studies comparing suspects with Interpol and Europol databases. Additional tasks involve the CNI, the Defence Staff, and the private company IH Iberia to provide satellite imagery and cyber-security analyses. The extensive scope points to a lengthy, multi-agency inquiry into possible criminal networks behind the border breach.