MADRID, 10 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, assured today that the President of the Government continues to support the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, after the controversy caused by the images published by the BBC about the assault of a multitude of migrants on the fence of Melilla last June.
Bolaños made these statements upon his arrival at the Council of State for the inauguration of the new president, Magdalena Valerio. There he has been asked by journalists if Pedro Sánchez maintains his confidence in the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska. “The answer is yes”, he snapped at him.
As for whether the Government is hiding information about whether or not there were deaths on the Spanish side of the fence and whether they were dragged to Morocco, he has pointed out that everything the Government is doing, since the images were seen that, saying, “they shrink their hearts when they see the tragedy that happened”, is to be transparent.
At this point, he added that the Government has given “all the information and documentation” that it has to both the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ombudsman “which are the institutions that are investigating.”
And he added that “transparency has reached the point of even showing the images to a committee of parliamentarians.” “All the political forces have seen it and we have also contributed it to the Prosecutor’s Office and, therefore, total and maximum transparency on this issue”, he stressed while stressing that “the Government as a whole, also the Minister of the Interior, are committed to defending human rights and those values”.
Regarding the request of the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, for an exhaustive investigation of the facts, she insisted that “the entire Government as a whole, without exception, is committed to human rights and democratic values.”
