Rufián accuses Morocco of using 80,000 people against Spain and lashes out at Sánchez: "They are pusillanimous"

Gabriel Rufián has raised his tone against the Government during his intervention in Congress over the Ceuta crisis and has directly pointed to Morocco as responsible for the massive entry of migrants. The ERC spokesperson has accused Rabat of having sent some 80,000 people towards the Spanish border with the aim of provoking a political crisis and has argued that there was collaboration from the United States, Israel, and sectors of the Spanish right.

"I accuse Morocco of sending 80,000 people to its border to overthrow the Spanish government with the collaboration of Washington, Tel Aviv, and, yes, the Spanish right and far-right, both police and judicial," Rufián stated. In this context, he directed harsh words against Mohamed VI: "Mohamed VI is a murderer. You are traitors to your homeland, because if the police and judges knew, your police and your judges, you also knew. You also knew."

Rufián accuses the Government of being "pusillanimous"

The republican leader has also placed Sánchez's Executive at the center of his criticism. In his opinion, the Government is not offering a sufficiently firm response to Morocco and would be avoiding explaining what really happened during the border crisis. "And you, ladies and gentlemen of the government, are pusillanimous, and I am being generous," he stated.

Rufián has put forward two possible explanations for the Executive's attitude: that there is compromising information about Morocco that justifies its position, or that the Government believes it is facing a situation it cannot win. The ERC spokesperson expressly rejected the first hypothesis as "conspiratorial," but questioned the images disseminated during the crisis and the attitude of the Moroccan forces. He also pointed to statements by American, Israeli, and Moroccan leaders that, according to his interpretation, would evidence a much broader international context.

"Governments are lost by lying"

Rufián has also taken advantage of Sánchez's announcement to publish the police and intelligence reports to warn the president of the political consequences that this decision may have. He highlighted that practically the entire hemicycle has supported the declassification, with the exception he attributes to the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles.

"Beyond the insult to intelligence that what you are defending entails, governments, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. President, are not lost by erring. Making mistakes can be more or less complicated, more or less damaging for a government. Governments are above all lost by lying, by lying," he assured.

The ERC deputy then linked the crisis with the geopolitical interests of the United States and placed Morocco as a strategic partner for the control of important trade routes. "Mohamed VI neither dresses nor eats nor breathes without Trump knowing it," he affirmed, before defending that the Strait of Gibraltar, the Strait of Hormuz and the Panama and Suez canals are essential pieces of world trade.

"They have attacked their country"

Rufián insisted that Sánchez should openly recognize that Spain suffered an attack and rejected that the Government treats the episode solely as a migratory crisis. "Ladies and gentlemen of the government: they have attacked your country. This is an attack. It is using people as cannon fodder. And say it, nothing happens," he proclaimed.

In his speech, he also questioned whether Morocco could be concerned about the international consequences of its actions and resorted to the figure of Mohamed VI to cast doubt on that argument. "But if the king of Morocco lives in a penthouse in Paris all year round, penthouses are now in fashion. What does the international image of Morocco matter to Mohamed VI?" he asked.

The republican spokesman also warned that, if Spain does not offer a strong response, the situation could be repeated: "Will Morocco send 80,000 people every day? They will continue to do so, every time they want or every time, I repeat, Tel Aviv or Washington asks them to."

Rufián attacks the right and demands a response from the left

The ERC leader has also placed the PP and Vox within his criticism, accusing them of using the crisis to fuel a discourse of confrontation. He has especially rejected the language of "invasion" used by both parties and has warned of the risks of turning the crisis into a warlike confrontation.

Rufián has demanded that the Government combine control of the situation with a political and social response that allows attending to those who arrived in Ceuta and managing returns within legality. In parallel, he has demanded that the left not ignore the consequences of the crisis to prevent the right from imposing its own narrative. "Either the left looks at reality or the traitors to their homeland will invent one," he concluded.