Brahim Ghali appreciates the “solidarity” of Spain although he refuses to clarify how he entered the country

Brahim Ghali, leader of the Polisario Front and president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), recognized by dozens of countries, thanked this Saturday for the solidarity shown by the people and the Spanish State and has been congratulated for the work of the justice of this country.

At a press conference held in the Sahrawi refugee camps set up more than 45 years ago in the Algerian desert region of Tindouf, Ghali has avoided referring explicitly to the controversy over his entry into Spain for a serious COVID-19 infection. “It is a false debate. The Spanish Government has already responded on how I entered. I have been in a critical situation. I entered a hospital, I was cured and now I am speaking, I am here alive,” he declared.

However, he has alluded to the file of one of the two cases of torture and illegal detention, in this case the one presented by Moroccan citizens: “There was a complaint presented by certain pro-Moroccan organizations with false accusations that they were not based on any reality and I believe that the court gave its point of view and made its decision, which you all know, “Ghali said before a large group of local and foreign journalists from Spain.

That case, initially filed by the Spanish judge Santiago Pedraz, it was later reopened when the plaintiffs appealed and revoke the Criminal Chamber of the National High Court the decision of the magistrate, for reasons of form, since the Chamber considered that it should have been processed under the legal figure of “summary” and not as “preliminary proceedings of abbreviated procedure”.

“AND I reiterate our gratitude to the Spanish solidarity in the different towns of Spain and to the different institutions. We are very appreciative of that solidarity that has accompanied us for decades and that we hope will accompany us to victory, “concluded the Polisario leader, who has Spanish nationality.

Ghali was infected with coronavirus last April and, after being briefly treated in a military hospital in Algiers, he was rushed to Spain in a medicalized plane and admitted to a hospital in Logroño in an operation that unleashed the malaise in Morocco. while the Spanish Government defended that it was done for “humanitarian reasons”.

The The transfer sparked a diplomatic crisis between Spain and Morocco, to which was added an avalanche of irregular migrants across the Moroccan border, an action that was harshly condemned by the European Union. Ghali has another complaint open, for similar reasons, filed by a Spanish citizen.