MÁLAGA, 15 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, assured this Tuesday that the death of at least 23 migrants on June 24 next to the Melilla fence “deserves a thorough investigation”, pointing out that “it is possible” that in the development of the proceedings carried out by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, “some type of evidentiary contribution” may be required.
García Ortiz has thus referred to the open investigation into the events that occurred in Melilla on 24-J. A BBC documentary and a trip by parliamentarians to the fence have reopened criticism of the management of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, whom the government and opposition partners point out for lying.
García Ortiz has specified that they are in the phase “of analyzing the material of what we have and asking for other steps if said analysis requires us to complete something specific”. The attorney general has commented that he “does not miss anything” now, but has pointed out that “it is possible that in the development of the proceedings they need some type of evidentiary contribution”.
“That does not mean anything, but that we continue to investigate and that we try to do it in the best possible way to understand all the difficult circumstances in which these unfortunate events occurred; the death of so many people, 23 people in the report that Morocco sends to the United Nations, it is a tragic event that deserves a thorough investigation,” he said.
At the inauguration of the new chief prosecutor of Malaga, Juan Calvo Rubio, the attorney general has assured that they have had access to the Ombudsman’s report these days, underlining in this regard that “they are very different fields of action”.
In its report from last October, the Office chaired by Ángel Gabilondo questioned the account of events offered by Grande-Marlaska on the entry into Spanish soil of Moroccan gendarmes, the throwing of stones by the civil guards or the lack of health care migrants who wanted to access Spain.
“We are in this ongoing investigation, in which we are collecting proceedings that we understand are pertinent to get an idea of ??the facts and to close those aspects that may have one or more explanations,” he said in statements to journalists.
Last week, the Ministry of the Interior sent explanatory letters to the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ombudsman in which it explained that the entire sequence of images recorded on 24-J had been sent to both institutions from the outset, within what this ministerial department defends as an exercise of collaboration and transparency with ongoing investigations.
