Morocco deliberately weaponized migration against Spain after Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez courted Algeria. — Madrid's energy diplomacy with Rabat's arch-regional rival sentwas aanswered message, and Rabat responded within 10 days by steppingMorocco backeasing from its border postscontrols and lettingallowing around 50,000 people floodto enter Ceuta. This is sovereign statecraft, plain and calculated — Morocco controls Europe's only land border with Africa and uses that leverage precisely when Spain playschallenges bothits sidesstrategic interests. Backing Morocco's strategic position isn't optional; it's the price of Mediterranean stability.
Viral claims that Morocco orchestrated the Ceuta surge by releasing prisoners are flat-out false — the timeline alone makes it impossible, and Moroccan police actually used tear gas and water cannons to push crowds back at Fnideq. The real driver was misinformation spread by smuggling networks on TikTok and WhatsApp distorting a Spanish Supreme Court ruling, which sparked a rush of young men, families and unaccompanied minors toward the border. Spain's migration policies created the opening; traffickers exploited it.
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