Morocco has deployed an estimated 3,000 security personnel — including water cannon trucks, armoured vehicles, and plainclothes officers — along its border with Ceuta (a Spanish enclave on the northern tip of Africa) ahead of Wednesday's Moroccan legislative elections, following a mass crossing in late July in which up to 85,000 migrants entered the territory. Spain's embassy in Morocco has warned Rabat of online calls for a new large-scale crossing to coincide with election day on 23 September, when security forces may be diverted to polling stations, and has stressed that irregular entry through Ceuta or Melilla confers no right to travel to mainland Spain or elsewhere in the EU. Meanwhile, a judge at Spain's National Court has mobilised 21 police, military, and intelligence units — including the CNI spy agency — to investigate whether crimes were committed during the July crossing, probing the alleged role of Moroccan agents in guiding migrants and the possible financing and digital coordination behind the event.