United We Can considers that the Ministry of the Interior “broke the law” in the jump to the Melilla fence carried out by 2,000 sub-Saharan migrants last June and in which at least 24 people died and demands a “rectification” from its owner, Fernando Grande -Marlaska. This is how the president of the parliamentary group of United We Can and En Comú Podem expressed this Tuesday in Congress, Jaume Asens, after making public a documentary in which the BBC proves the existence of illegal hot returns by the Spanish Police during that episode and shows the extreme violence of the Moroccan agents.
Marlaska highlights that the jump to the Melilla fence was “intolerable and violent” to justify police action
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“The Melilla massacre was a shame and the Interior broke the law. He even told the UN or the Ombudsman. Today, also the BBC”, Asens said in a tweet. In the same message, the deputy affirms that Marlaska “must rectify and the PSOE stop blocking, with VOX and PP, the Congress investigation.” “We demand truth, justice and reparation”, he ends it.
The Melilla massacre was a shame and Interior broke the law. He even told the UN or the Ombudsman. Today, also the BBC.
Marlaska must rectify and the PSOE stop blocking, with VOX and PP, the Congress investigation. We demand truth, justice and reparation. pic.twitter.com/Mx106vd1Xj
— Jaume Asens (@Jaumeasens) November 1, 2022
Last September, the Socialists joined their votes with those of the right and the extreme right to overthrow the commission of investigation requested by the partners of the Government on the police action at the Melilla fence last June. Then, the PSOE spokesman in Congress, Patxi López, justified the position of his group in relation to that episode, alluding to the fact that Grande-Marlaska would appear in the lower house in the following days and give explanations.
Finally, Marlaska appeared on September 21. The minister did not provide new information on the circumstances that led to the death of at least 23 migrants and refugees and stressed that the attempted jump over the fence that ended in tragedy was “intolerable and violent” to justify police action. The head of the Interior lamented the “loss of human lives” but insisted that the response of the Spanish authorities was “firm, serene and proportionate”.
