Several reports citing witnesses and experts interviewed by AFP say an easing of controls by Morocco in the border area near Ceuta may have contributed to a recent large influx of migrants into Spain’s North African enclave. According to the accounts, thousands of people gathered in the Moroccan border town of Fnideq and moved toward the enclave, but they were not stopped by the kind of exceptional security measures that might be expected during a mass attempt. Witnesses described that while there were regular gendarmerie checkpoints along the roads, there was no extraordinary deployment or additional blockade specifically to halt the crowd. The articles raise the question of whether Morocco deliberately allowed or facilitated the movement, and discuss potential motives in general terms—though they do not present confirmed evidence of intent. Instead, they focus on what people observed on the ground and what specialists suggest could explain the operational posture at the time. Overall, the reporting characterizes the situation as a possible link between control levels and the scale of the migrant movement, while acknowledging that conclusions about deliberate state action are not definitively established in the cited sources.