The former chief of staff of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Camilo Villarino, will appear this Monday before the judge in charge of the Brahim Ghali case. According to the high command of the air force, it was he who would have given the order not to submit the leader of the Polisario Front and his entourage to customs formalities upon his arrival in Spain.
Miguel Ángel Moratinos, former Spanish Foreign Minister, advocates good relations between Rabat and Madrid. For him, Morocco and Spain have "overcome" their crisis caused by the Ghali affair.
More is known about the circumstances of the Polisario leader’s departure from Spain. Brahim Ghali had been admitted to the San Pedro de Logroño hospital, under a false identity in April, after contracting Covid-19, and had returned to Algeria under unclear circumstances.
The investigating judge of the Zaragoza court, Rafael Lasala, suspects Camilo Villarino, the former chief of staff of Arancha González Laya, of having hidden information from the second chief of the Air Force general staff, Francisco Javier Fernández Sánchez, to facilitate the entry into Spain of Brahim Ghali , the leader of the Polisario Front, without customs control.
The leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, will return to the camps in September, after five months of absence for health reasons related to Covid-19 and complications that required a long convalescence period.
When questioned about the trial that is starting in September regarding the arrival of the Polisario Front leader in Spain, the Spanish diplomat Inocencio Arias declared on Monday on ’El Cascabel’ of TRECE that "it is impossible for Brahim Ghali to enter Spain without the knowledge of the Moncloa".
The president of the investigating court in Zaragoza, Rafael Lasala, has decided to summon the diplomat Camilo Villarino, the former chief of staff of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as part of the ongoing judicial investigation into the arrival of Brahim Ghali , the leader of the Polisario Front, on an Algerian presidential plane at the Zaragoza military base. The hearing is scheduled for early September.
During his videoconference appearance on June 1 from the hospital in San Pedro de Logroño, Brahim Ghali, the leader of the Polisario Front, accused of torture and various human rights violations, had told judge Santiago Pedraz that he did not recognize the facts and that in no case would he renounce his "diplomatic immunity".
The reception of Brahim Ghali , the leader of the Polisario Front, in a hospital in Logroño, Spain under a false identity, would have been discovered by Morocco thanks to the Israeli spyware Pegasus.
The Spanish justice system decided on Thursday to dismiss the complaint for "genocide" targeting Brahim Ghali , the leader of the Polisario Front separatists, who was summoned by a judge in early June while he was hospitalized. The complaint had been filed by the Sahrawi Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ASADEDH) for alleged genocide offenses related to acts allegedly committed against Moroccan citizens between 1975 and 1990.
Activist Ahmed Tarouzi , summoned to appear last Tuesday, certified in his statement to Judge Santiago Pedraz that Brahim Ghali was the one who gave the orders for torture in the Tindouf camps, even if he did not inflict it himself.
Morocco is going through tense times with Europe. Since last week, it has been accused of having spied using the Israeli software Pegasus on the phones of French President Emmanuel Macron as well as those of several personalities. The kingdom has already fallen out with Germany on the Sahara issue and with Spain after the reception of Brahim Ghali.