Gonzalo Sanz, chief of staff to Spain’s government delegate in Ceuta, has resigned amid conflicting accounts of whether he passed on intelligence warnings before the July 30 mass migrant crossings, Spanish media reported.
Declassified documents show that Sanz received a WhatsApp message from a National Intelligence Center (CNI) officer on July 29 about social media calls for mass crossings. The two also spoke by telephone for about 11 minutes.
Sanz said he relayed the information that day to government delegate Miguel Ángel Pérez Triano. In his resignation letter, cited by El País, he maintained that he had fulfilled his duty by informing his superior.
The delegation disputed that account and said Pérez Triano had asked Sanz to resign. It said the delegate knew neither the contents of the message nor about the telephone call before July 30.
The declassified records show that the CNI detected calls on July 29 for mass entry into Ceuta by land and sea and alerted authorities, including the government delegation and the Civil Guard.
The disagreement centers on whether those warnings reached Pérez Triano before the crossings.
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