A day before tens of thousands of people crossed into Spain's enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, the country's intelligence service had already named the hour, the method, and the organizers. The declassified record of that warning — specific, timely, and now public — has forced a reckoning with one of the oldest questions in governance: what separates knowing from acting. In the space between a WhatsApp alert and 72,000 human beings in the water, a political and humanitarian crisis took shape that Ceuta is still living inside.
Spain's spy agency warned of mass Ceuta crossings before border crisis
Over 72,000 migrants and asylum seekers, including 1,200 minors, crossed into Ceuta; 5,000-10,000 remain unhoused in the enclave over a month later.