“There were Russian and Israeli networks that spread a lie” by implying that “if you entered the autonomous city of Ceuta by swimming, it was impossible to be rejected at the border, which is not true.” Pedro Sanchez said this in an interview with Cadena Ser. «A ruling from the Supreme Court was misrepresented and was spread on social networks through false disinformation news, including through criminal organizations». Sanchez associated the disinformation with “an ultra-right international that always uses migration not only to attack Spain but also Europe, and divide it.”
Sanchez, “To face the migration crisis we need European solidarity”
The Spanish Prime Minister also appealed for European solidarity to deal with the migratory crisis in the Spanish exclaves on the southern border in North Africa and recalled that during that “in Lampedusa, Spain welcomed the migrants who arrived” on Italian territory. “Europe must show solidarity with Lampedusa, Greenland and Ceuta or the Canary Islands,” Sanchez said. “We need the solidarity of the Central European and Northern European countries,” he added, in a radio interview with Cadena Ser, when asked about the position of countries such as Italy, which suspended the Schengen area with Spain, after the wave of migration on 30 and 31 July. “Why in the case of Spain was there no solid solidarity from the EU countries?” asked Sanchez. «Why do we have a progressive coalition government? Or because we have a position on Gaza and other issues?” he added. The prime minister once again referred to the “misinformation” on social networks which, in his opinion, was decisive for the mass influx of migrants to Ceuta and Melilla at the end of July. “If Russia and Israel start misinforming on this issue, will it be because they are worried about migration in Spain or because what worries them is the international position in Europe?” Sanchez underlined, indicating that the goal of disinformation is to weaken the EU as a whole.