CNI Images of Ceuta That Never Reached the Judge

CNI Images of Ceuta That Never Reached the Judge

Satellite images from the CNI concerning the events at the Ceuta border between July 30 and 31 are not included in the report that the National Police sent to the National Court. Vozpópuli reports that the government allegedly removed these pieces of evidence from the file intended to prove the organizational level of the caravan that arrived in rental cars. The hypothesis considered in that report, according to cited police sources, is that such a deployment would be "unthinkable without the involvement of authorities" from the neighboring country. The material is not there. The judge has not seen it.

What Did the Omitted Images Show?

According to the published information, the images showed the arrival of the caravan in rental cars with a level of organization difficult to attribute to a spontaneous initiative. This leads to the legal dimension: some are elevating the case to treason against the homeland as defined in articles 581 to 588 of the Penal Code, which punishes aiding a foreign power against the sovereignty or territorial integrity of one's own state. This is an accusation without any known formal charges or judicial resolution to support it.

Shared Taxis: Evidence or Everyday Scene?

Contrasting the narrative of an organized convoy is the more mundane testimony: those who frequently cross that border maintain that the cars parked near the crossing are the usual shared taxis, present before and after the incident. The Prime Minister himself spoke of Ceuta having to assume "a structural reality" with thousands of migrants. And here the analysis stalls: no one has publicly released a comparison that would definitively settle whether those vehicles formed the convoy or were simply in the picture.

What Remains Unanswered

There is no judicial confirmation of the images' removal, nor of Rabat's role, nor of the penal implications of the episode. An uncomfortable question remains: if the material existed, why is it not in the hands of those investigating?