Last night, the British network BBC broadcast an exhaustive documentary that contradicts the official version of the tragedy that occurred at the Melilla fence last June, when a massive assault by migrants from Morocco left at least 23 dead.
According to the report Death on the border of the Africa Eye program, there were 24 deaths and another 70 disappeared. In addition, it collects video evidence and testimonies that would show the hot returns carried out by the Spanish police, as well as the extreme violence used by Moroccan agents.
Although the program declined to broadcast all the videos in its possession about the tragedy due to their extreme harshness, their analysis makes them contradict the official version expressed at the time by both the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska. Both defended the actions of the Moroccan police, and the president came to appreciate that the Gendarmerie had to "work hard" to contain the avalanche.
The documentary includes the version of the Interior, which maintains that the actions were carried out in accordance with the law and that it is "absolutely false" that a total of 300 hot returns were produced. However, the report reproduces recordings by Spanish photographer Javier Bernardo in which it is seen how "Moroccan forces enter Spanish territory to take migrants" back to Morocco.
The report is in line with what was recently denounced by the Ombudsman, which indicates that 470 migrants were returned across the border and that the Interior has not shared all the available images with the investigators.
