Gamarra again asks Sánchez for the minister’s dismissal and warns that he cannot “look the other way and endure as if nothing were happening”
MADRID, 10 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The general secretary of the PP, Cuca Gamarra, has accused this Thursday the head of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, of “hiding” the information about the Melilla tragedy and has summoned him to make available to Congress and the Prosecutor’s Office “all the videos” that you have in your possession. In addition, she has once again asked the President of the Government to dismiss the minister and for Pedro Sánchez himself to offer the explanations in Congress.
In an interview on Telecinco, which Europa Press has collected, Gamarra has assured that Marlaska should have appeared in Congress “a long time ago” to “give all the explanations” and make available to the deputies the images of what happened in Melilla in June so you can see them.
“Four months have passed since those events and also after the broadcast of that documentary (from the BBC), what no one doubts is that the minister has lied and hides the information because he does not allow us to explain it to us or to we can see in Congress”, he declared, to remember that the Prosecutor’s Office is “demanding more videos” and “the Ombudsman too”.
In this sense, Gamarra has stressed that Marlaska should have made available to Congress, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ombudsman “all the videos that the Ministry of the Interior has.” “As he has not done so until now, there is no other way out than for the President of the Government to dismiss him and for him to be the one to give the explanations,” he emphasized.
The leader of the PP has indicated that the Popular Group has been requesting the appearance of the minister in the Lower House for more than a week and that he provide these images to the deputies, but “he refuses to do so.”
“This in a democracy like Spain is not conceivable. Faced with some as harsh and tragic as those that occurred in June at the Melilla fence, it is not acceptable”, he stated, to underline that there are “at least 23 dead and it cannot be the Government look the other way and put up with it as if nothing were happening”.
Until now, the Popular Group has assured that it will take parliamentary actions to Congress, although it has not specified what they will consist of. For now, they limit themselves to saying that they do not rule out presenting a request for the minister’s disapproval or an investigation commission on the Melilla tragedy.
