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Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of seeking to exploit irregular migration attempts from Morocco into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, linking the crisis to broader political pressure on Spain and Europe.
In a post on the U.S.-based social media platform X, Petro compared the attempted crossings to the alliance formed by Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War and urged Moroccans to focus on their own country rather than Spain.
Petro claimed Morocco had been placed at the service of Netanyahu’s ambitions and called on the Spanish and Arab peoples to resist what he described as an effort to push Spain toward fascism.
“The Moroccan civilian invasion of Ceuta imitates Franco’s alliance with the descendants of the ancient Cordoba Caliphate to overthrow the libertarian republic and re-enter Spain,” Petro said.
He added that Spain should remember what he described as its history “written in blood” and said both the Spanish and Arab peoples should declare, “They shall not pass.”
Petro also referred to Israel’s attacks in Gaza while addressing European and Arab audiences.
He claimed that the same money used to finance missiles that killed babies, women and elderly people in Gaza and deprived Palestinians of their freedom was now being used to undermine Europe’s democratic and progressive structure.
Petro said those responsible wanted to destroy both Palestine and what he called the democratic and libertarian essence of Europe and Western culture.
He argued that Spain was the party whose sovereignty and history should be respected.
Petro said Spain had not financed attacks against the country’s libertarian republic or supported Franco in the bombing of Guernica.
He alleged that Netanyahu, whom he accused of killing “22,000 sacred Palestinian babies” in the region where Jerusalem is located, represented the side responsible for such actions.
Petro referred to elections held in Colombia on June 21 and accused Netanyahu of financing electoral fraud.
“He is also the one who paid for the electoral fraud in Colombia, and that is why they want to silence me,” Petro said.
He called on those coordinating digital election observers in Colombia to disclose what he described as statistical patterns imposed through algorithms on the decisions of the Colombian people.
Petro demanded that the information be released immediately rather than waiting until Monday.
He said the time had come for dialogue among civilizations and that fascism had to be stopped.
Authorities intervened July 30 after more than 800 irregular migrants attempted to swim from the coast near the Moroccan city of Fnideq to Ceuta.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the government had mobilized all available resources in response.
Spain later decided to deploy its armed forces to the enclave as attempts to enter Ceuta increased.
The reported number of irregular migrants who died while trying to cross from Morocco into Spain rose to 88.
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