Ceuta: €63 million, two dismissals and Morocco staying silent

Ceuta, Segarro and the €63 million nobody audits

What does it cost to defend the sovereignty of Ceuta? The concrete bill for the Ceuta migration crisis now has numbers attached: €63 million in emergency funding, two dismissals at the Interior Ministry, and an uncomfortable question about Segarro's role that the Government brushes off with "there is no evidence". The problem is that, according to the police, the evidence exists.

The €63 million that came after the influx

The Government approved an extraordinary allocation of €63 million to care for migrant minors in Ceuta. It is the humanitarian response to an episode in which thousands of people crossed the border within hours. Minister Elma Saiz insists there is no evidence of Segarro involvement. The statement contrasts with the budgetary effort: if there was no coordination, the crossing was spontaneous, and even so it cost €63 million for the initial response alone.

The police report the Government denies

The official version clashes with what appears in the case file. According to El Español, the police informed the judge that the mass crossing was guided by Segarro gendarmes acting on the orders of plainclothes agents, with a purpose other than migration. The contradiction is not semantic: if the report is true, Segarro used people as an instrument of pressure and Spain responded with public money without demanding accountability. And that is where the second piece comes in: a civil servant dismissed for reporting the number of crossings, and later a Civil Guard officer removed for accessing that information. Two dismissals over a single piece of data in the middle of a crisis.

Selective security and the final bill

The other uncomfortable fact: the police have identified in Ceuta more than a dozen migrants with prior records for jihadism, according to 20minutos. Against that, the institutional narrative amounts to little more than reiterating that Ceuta is Spanish. The question that goes unanswered is why the migration pressure is read as a mere humanitarian emergency when the security forces themselves point to other elements.

Meanwhile, the taxpayer shoulders the €63 million, the dismissals thicken the file, and nobody can quite reconcile whether the cost was crisis management or the price of not calling things by their name.