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A high-speed train collision south of Madrid killed 64 people and injured scores more on Wednesday, with the toll likely to rise, authorities said in one of Europe’s deadliest such disasters this century.

The leak alleging that a Moroccan frigate entered Ceuta’s waters may have been part of a power struggle at the highest levels of the Spanish state. According to The Objective, intelligence officers deliberately leaked the information to settle scores with Pedro Sánchez. The newspaper also raises the prospect of further damaging disclosures ahead of Spain’s general election.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday called a snap election for November 29, after parliament rejected housing relief measures proposed by his minority government.

Another diplomatic slap for Algiers and a brutal return to square one: by unilaterally postponing its high-level summit with Algeria, scheduled for October 20 and 21, Madrid has shattered hopes of the reconciliation so loudly celebrated by Abdelmadjid Tebboune. The case of Ayoub Aïssiou, the once all-powerful businessman who has become the regime’s sworn enemy from his Spanish exile, is the real trigger behind this latest crisis. In Algiers, euphoria is giving way to panic.

Appearing Monday, September 14, on the set of La Sexta’s “El Intermedio,” Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez once again stressed the strategic partnership between the two countries. Dismissing the possibility of political blackmail and describing the rumors surrounding it as “Netflix series,” the head of government reiterated that there is no material evidence implicating Rabat in the migration crisis in Ceuta, contrasting institutional rigor and transparency with the opposition’s attempts to politicize the issue.

The highly anticipated documents on Ceuta had barely been released before they were already fueling two opposing narratives: one implicating Morocco, the other targeting Pedro Sánchez’s handling of the crisis. The Spanish government quickly stepped in to set the record straight. The CNI had indeed detected calls circulating on social media, but it never warned of a mass arrival or estimated that 180,000 people might take part.

By turning a fugitive wanted for fraud into a “super-spy” and a professional ID card that expired in 2014 into evidence of state involvement, Spanish daily ABC has produced a textbook case of media malpractice. From chronological inconsistencies and institutional confusion to speculation presented as certainty, here is a look at a methodological shipwreck systematically dismantled by lawmaker and academic Lahcen Haddad.

Any decision based on considerations similar to those that the Spanish prime minister himself described as “humane, courageous and intelligent” is interpreted in Madrid as an expression of malicious intent on Morocco’s part to harm Spain’s interests, blackmail it or revive its claims over Ceuta and Melilla.

Spain sells almost as much to Morocco as it does to the United States. As the PP turns up the heat over Ceuta, Carlos Cuerpo is urging “extreme caution” before blaming Rabat without evidence.