MADRID, 10 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has ruled out this Thursday the dismissal of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, due to the Melilla tragedy and has reiterated that the Executive will continue to transfer all the “available information” because “he has nothing to hide “.
In an interview in La Sexta, collected by Europa Press, Sánchez has defended that the minister has shown his respect for legality and has collaborated “with all open investigations”, in reference to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ombudsman, in addition to paying accounts in Parliament. “He will continue to give the precise answers,” he has indicated.
The head of the Executive has indicated that the Ministry has “nothing to hide” regarding the events of June 24 on the Spanish border with Morocco, where at least 23 migrants died, and has recalled that there were also Civil Guard agents who “were wounded” because it was, in his opinion, “a multidimensional tragedy”.
In this context, Sánchez has highlighted that the Government has transferred “all the information and raw images”, with “transparency and collaboration”, contrary to what the Government of Mariano Rajoy did, as he has criticized, in 2014 in the Tarajal.
Asked if the minister would accept an investigative commission in Congress, Sánchez stressed that Marlaska has appeared to give explanations on different occasions and that he will do so again if the Cortes Generales require it
Finally, Sánchez has reiterated his “absolute trust” in the head of the Interior, who has highlighted his “strict compliance with the law” and his empathy with “the human dimension of migration.” Thus, he has pointed to the mafias “that traffic in human beings” as the only ones responsible for the tragedy in Malilla.
