The Civil Guard is designated as directly responsible for the order to “deal with any violent event on the border”
CUENCA, 7 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has indicated this Monday that the political groups will have access, first during his visit to Melilla and then in Congress, to “all” the images recorded by helicopter, drones and the cameras of the fence border of Melilla during the tragedy of June 24 in which at least 23 migrants died, the same ones that have been sent to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ombudsman.
In this sense, it has been pointed out as directly responsible for the order issued to the Civil Guard to “deal with any violent event on the border”, within a device that was “proportional”, and has refuted the BBC that there was corpses dragged to Nador from Melilla. “There were no deaths in Spanish territory,” he has indicated.
“No report can refer that the Civil Guard has had any kind of responsibility in the tragic deaths,” continued the head of the Interior, who has insisted on his involvement in the instructions given to the Security Forces.
“The Guard has an order and it is dictated by this Minister of the Interior: to deal with any violent event on the border,” he said while lamenting the deaths and injuries, including the agents.
Speaking to the press from Cuenca, where he has visited the construction works of the new police station, Grande-Marlaska has sent a direct message to the PP as the main opposition party –Vox has distanced itself from the visit to Melilla this Monday and Ciudadanos has alleged scheduling problems– to demand that “it does not instrumentalize or use” the State Security Forces and Bodies.
“This Minister of the Interior is directly responsible for all the actions they carry out,” he said in reference to the Civil Guard and the National Police, adding that the Government has been “absolutely transparent” when delivering the images of the events of 24-J to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ombudsman, the same “complete recordings” that parliamentary spokesmen will now be able to see both in Melilla and in the Interior Commission of Congress.
In line with what the Interior defended after the BBC documentary, which is why United We Can and the Government’s partners have once again requested an investigation commission, Grande-Marlaska has underlined the “proportionality and legality” of the action in the border fencing.
“A tragedy that moves us all, we would not have liked to have suffered it,” he said, immediately emphasizing that it was “a violent attack on the border of the European Union” and that it also left 50 civil guards injured.
