The crisis between Morocco and Spain, born after the reception of Brahim Ghali in a hospital in Logroño, is not about to see its epilogue. This Sunday, Arancha González Laya, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, indicated that the leader of the Polisario "will return to his country when he has recovered".
In reaction to the migration crisis in Ceuta and the Brahim Ghali affair, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just instructed its ambassadors in the 27 European Union countries to "counter Morocco’s diplomatic offensive".
While Nasser Bourita , Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad, has warned against the exfiltration of Brahim Ghali, his counterpart Arancha Gonzalez Laya assures that the leader of the Polisario will respond to Spanish justice.
In Morocco, thousands of people, including journalists and activists, are reacting to the new tension between the kingdom and Spain caused by the emergency admission of Brahim Ghali , the Polisario leader, to a hospital in Logroño, under the assumed name of Mohamed Ben Battouche, of Algerian nationality. They have called for a boycott of Spanish products.
Fouad Yazough, ambassador and director general of political affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad, is convinced that the Brahim Ghali affair has not finished revealing all its secrets. He calls for a "transparent investigation".
The Moroccan ambassador to Spain, Karima Benyaich has warned of a likely departure of Brahim Ghali from the Iberian peninsula "in an opaque manner". The Polisario leader was admitted urgently to a hospital in Logroño, under the borrowed name of Mohamed Ben Battouche, of Algerian nationality, on April 18.
Revelations published in a Spanish newspaper tend to prove that Spain wanted to avoid a diplomatic crisis with Morocco by considering transferring the Polisario leader Brahim Ghali to Portugal before authorizing his emergency admission to the hospital in San Millán de la city of Logroño under a false identity.
The reception of the Polisario leader, Brahim Ghali, by Spain was for "humanitarian reasons" and not to create a conflict between Spain and Morocco. This is what the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha Gonzalez Laya, explained in an interview.
The Sahrawi Association for the Defense of Human Rights (Asadedh) and the Sahrawi activist Fadel Breika, who filed a complaint against the Polisario leader and called for his immediate arrest before his appearance on June 1, did not prevail. The position of Santiago Pedraz Gomez, the investigating judge at the Spanish National Court in charge of the case, remains unchanged. No precautionary measures against Brahim Ghali .
Arancha González Laya, Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation of Spain, returns to the emergency admission of Brahim Ghali , leader of the Polisario, in a hospital in Logroño, near Zaragoza, under the borrowed name of Mohamed Ben Battouche, of Algerian nationality. She rules out any link between the disagreement with Rabat on this issue and the arrival of thousands of Moroccan migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Monday.
From Monday to Tuesday, 5,000 Moroccan migrants, including a thousand minors, managed to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. This is the first time in 24 hours that so many people have managed to cross the border between Morocco and Spain.
Spanish political scientist Pedro Ignacio Altamirano had filed a complaint for death threats against Polisario leader Brahim Ghali with the investigating judge of the Malaga court. The latter gave a favorable response to this complaint and decided to bring the case before the National Court.