Spain and Morocco continue to strengthen their new stage with the search for new areas of cooperation. Against the backdrop of the tragedy of the Melilla fence -which last June resulted in at least 23 immigrants dying at the border crossing-, the Attorney General of the Spanish State, Álvaro García Ortíz, traveled yesterday to Rabat accompanied by a a large group of prosecutors to present Morocco with a project that will deepen Spanish-Moroccan collaboration to fight cybercrime, human trafficking or drug trafficking.
The attorney general was accompanied in Rabat by a large delegation of prosecutors, including the International Cooperation Attorney, Francisco Jiménez Villarejo; the chief anti-drug prosecutor, Rosa María Morán; the prosecutor of the Supreme Court Chamber and former chief prosecutor for Anticorruption, Manuel Moix, or the prosecutor of the Environment Chamber, Antonio Vercher. The Spanish ambassador to Morocco, Ricardo Díez-Hochleitner, described the expedition as "one of the most important" that he has known throughout his diplomatic career in the Maghreb country.
The visit of the delegation of prosecutors had been scheduled for a long time, but the reactivation of the Melilla fence crisis after the BBC documentary – which contradicts the official version – made the press spotlights point to the investigation that the Prosecution has underway on the matter. “The result will be seen in due course and will be known by public opinion”, were the only words that García Ortiz publicly dedicated to the matter.
In parallel, on Monday it will be the turn of a delegation of deputies from the Congress Interior Commission who will travel to Melilla to learn first-hand details of what happened. The day will be marked by the -expected- visualization of the images captured by the security cameras of the fence and a helicopter of the armed institute during that fateful day in which some 2,000 migrants tried to cross into Spain.
The deputies of the PSOE, United We Can, PP, ERC, PNV and EH Bildu (neither Vox, nor Citizens, nor JxCat will attend) will arrive at 10:30 a.m. in the autonomous city and at 11:00 a.m. the visit to the civil command is scheduled, where the operation of the border perimeter surveillance system will be explained to them and later they will access the control room and will be able to see the screens of the fence cameras and the images of the June 24 tragedy. An agenda that some of the deputies have already branded as very tight.
The criticism launched by those who claim that there will not be enough time to view the images of the tragedy have been answered by the Ministry of the Interior by making all the recordings available to parliamentarians in Madrid.
From the ministry headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, they insist on the transparency with which they have acted until now and will continue to do so. In this context, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, yesterday showed his "support and recognition" for Marlaska, whom he described as a "great Minister of the Interior" who "performs his work effectively and honestly, always complying with the legislation and in defense of human rights”. At the end of these statements, Sánchez greeted the head of the Interior, who expressed his satisfaction with the express support of the head of the Spanish Executive.
