Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles has demanded that Morocco investigate the mass entry of migrants into Ceuta and has defended the country’s intelligence services against suggestions they failed to anticipate it. Her tone was firmer than that of the rest of the Spanish Government, which has largely avoided pointing at Rabat. The minister declined to say whether the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) had picked up warnings before the surge, saying its work was secret. Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said on August 1 that he had received no alert from the CNI, which answers to the Defence Ministry. The official death toll stands at 72 on the Spanish side of the border and 11 on the Moroccan side.