Reporting from Spain's EFE news agency suggests nine people have been sentenced to between five and six months in prison for "facilitating the clandestine departure of Moroccans and/or foreigners through places other than the border crossings enabled for this purpose".

Two others have been convicted of using electronic devices to encourage others to commit a crime.

A further 20 people are awaiting sentencing on charges including vandalism and assaults on public officials, and at least 50 more have been arrested and charged over crimes related to the invasion.

As many as 72,000 Moroccans stormed into the city, mostly swimming around land barriers in the belief that arriving in Spanish territory from the sea would make it harder for them to be deported. They had apparently been encouraged in that belief by people traffickers who used social media to convince them that a recent Supreme Court decision favored them.

The government of both Spain and Morocco have placed the blame for the invasion squarely with the people traffickers, but right-wing politicians in Spain have said the blame lies with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

Sánchez has come under intense criticism in recent months for offering legal status to over half a million illegal immigrants in the country.

Since applications opened in April, 1.17 million immigrants have applied for legal status.

Santiago Abascal, the leader of Spain's far-right party Vox, has called for Sánchez to be prosecuted in light of the border chaos. 

"What happened in Ceuta has been an invasion and an act of war promoted by Morocco and allowed by Sánchez, who is incapable of responding because he is subservient to Morocco," he claimed on X.

Miguel Tellado, the Secretary General of Spain's People's Party, also blamed Sánchez for the Ceuta incident.

"No one can be surprised that thousands of people want to enter a country that regularizes more than a million irregular immigrants overnight," he wrote Thursday.

"They come with the expectation that Pedro Sánchez will sooner rather than later turn them into Spanish citizens. Not only are we not stopping the avalanche, but we are sending the message that those who come soon will be able to become Spanish.

"The person responsible for what is happening in Ceuta is the President of the Government. One more reason to kick him out as soon as possible."