MADRID, 8 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has reiterated this Tuesday that on June 24 “no tragic event” occurred in national territory, in reference to the deaths of migrants near the Melilla fence, as well as that he is willing to appear in Congress and that the groups can see in the format they decide “all the graphic or documentary evidence” without editing, which are the same ones that have already been sent to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ombudsman.
To questions from journalists before entering the commission of reserved expenses in Congress, Grande-Marlaska has defended that the Government has acted with “transparency” from the first moment. After traveling to Melilla, the partners of the Government of United We Can, ERC and EH Bildu maintain that the Minister of the Interior is lying, something that the PP also shares.
In this sense, he has said that he is not the most appropriate person to determine the format in which the explanations have to be extended, after his parliamentary partners have requested an investigation commission between resignation requests.
On Monday he had already announced that the groups will be able to see all the images recorded from the cameras of the border perimeter in Chinatown, as well as those from the helicopter and a Civil Guard drone.
“I will appear as many times as necessary and I will give the explanations required by the parliamentarians, more would be missing,” he insisted upon his arrival at the secret commission.
In any case, Grande-Marlaska has avoided direct confrontation over the censorship received from the parliamentary partners of the PSOE based on three basic ideas: “No tragic event occurred in Spanish territory”, the Civil Guard acted in the demarcation zone Spanish with “proportionality” to repel a “very violent attack”, using “very dangerous elements”, and that it has no problem making “all graphic or documentary evidence” available to Parliament.
On the criticism for the entry of Moroccan gendarmes to the Spanish area of ??the border, Grande-Marlaska has pointed out that the two police forces act on their land “with parameters of autonomy”.
“There is no continuous cooperation or collaboration action over time, but when an event of violent attack occurs, at any given moment, there is always a specific circumstance of very specific cooperation and coordination,” he specified.
Grande-Marlaska has insisted that 24-J was a “tragic” day — “it moved us all” –, as he has been doing since the BBC published a documentary that questions the version of the Interior about the place where they died at least 23 migrants of the 2,000 sub-Saharans who wanted to access Spain.
“It was seen that there was a very violent attack, using very dangerous elements to attack the border that is also part of the European Union. The Civil Guard acted in parameters of legality, proportionality and necessity following very clear orders to protect the border”, has commented before repeating: “No tragic event occurred in Spanish territory”.
