The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has been shocked by the violence on the border between Nador (Morocco) and Melilla (Spain) in the jump to the border fence by a large group of migrants, most of them Sudanese, which ended with the death of 37 of them, according to local NGOs, although Morocco lowers the figure to 23.
On his Twitter account, the head of the UN considers the "excessive use of force" "unacceptable" and calls on countries to "prioritize the human rights and dignity of migrants."
Guterres' statements about the Melilla tragedy come at a time when the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, is internally questioned by his coalition partners, usual allies and the opposition for assuming the events that have occurred as a "well resolved" situation last Friday and has limited himself to lamenting and conveying the pain for the victims without any criticism of the police action, not even of the French Gendarmerie.
This same Wednesday, Sánchez has alleged on the Ser chain, that when he referred to the "well resolved" situation, he had not seen the images that show the Moroccan police action and in which the deaths of the migrants are seen.
In any case, in today's government control session, without Sánchez, all the groups, from the right, with José Antonio Bermúdez de Castro, from the PP; Xabier Bariandearan, from the PNV; or Jon Iñarritu, from EH Bildu, called the Government to account for what happened in Melilla, and the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, had to defend the Chief Executive, whom he assured that "he has never justified" what happened, for what he asked his interlocutors "not to make partial and interested questions.
“Of course we have to be empathic, and put ourselves in the shoes of those migrants who have suffered and died. But I also ask that we put ourselves in the shoes, in the shoes, of the State security forces and bodies in Spain, 40 civil guards were injured as a result of this violent attack, and of the more than one hundred Moroccan gendarmes who have been injured and some of them dead”, Sánchez justified today in La Ser.
In any case, the groups on the left have demanded an independent investigation, something that the president of the African Union also demanded on Monday, while the European Commissioner for the Interior, Ylva Johansson, declared herself "deeply concerned". For its part, the State Attorney General's Office announced yesterday that it will investigate the facts.
