After defending the reception of its leader by the Spanish authorities, the separatist Polisario Front attacked Madrid, saying that it had surrendered to the “blackmail” of Morocco.
The Polisario Front media criticized the Spanish judiciary because of the unofficial news circulating about the summoning of Ibrahim Ghali, considering that this “clearly shows the fragility of the Spanish government and institutions that have once again succumbed to blackmail and Moroccan interference in their sovereign decisions and the independence of the judiciary.”
Doubts are still surrounding the Spanish judiciary summoning Polisario leader Ibrahim Ghali. After Iberian media outlets, including “Effie” confirmed the news of the summons after a pause, they returned today to present another story.
Spanish sources, including the Spanish News Agency and the European Press Agency, said that the investigating judge of the Spanish National Court ordered to verify whether the leader of the Polisario is present on Spanish soil with false identity and papers before deciding on the issue of his summons.
The same sources stated that District Court Judge No. 5 did not, in principle, refuse to summon Ibrahim Ghali in order to investigate the charges against him, based on the request of the Sahrawi Association for the Defense of Human Rights, after he was aware of this. While the summons was actually directed to five members of the Polisario Front, including commanders.
And unofficial data circulated about the summoning of Ibrahim Ghali to appear before the Spanish courts, after a complaint submitted by Fadel Barika.
The Sahrawi activist Barika, whose complaint was accepted by the Spanish courts last April, accuses the separatist leader of responsibility for his kidnapping from June 18, 2009 to November 10 of the same year.
Barika said in a press statement: “I was kidnapped for about five months and I was tortured in the prisons of the Tindouf camps for the simple reason that I demanded the disclosure of the fate of Ahmed Khaled, who was kidnapped by the Algerian intelligence services since January 2009.”
"I have also condemned the recruitment of children by the Polisario Front on social media and the acts of violence committed by its leaders," Fadel Barika added.
Brahim Ghali, who was received by Spain with a forged Algerian identity card and other forged papers, was the subject of several complaints in Spain, on charges of rape, torture, genocide and kidnapping.
An arrest warrant for Ibrahim Ghali was issued by the Spanish authorities in 2008, and in 2013 the Spanish courts indicted him for a long indictment.
Informed sources had questioned, in a previous statement to Hespress, the authenticity of the documents that were circulated on the subject. A Moroccan lawyer arguing for the case said in a statement to Lehespress that he had not received any information that the Spanish court had summoned the leader of the Polisario Front.
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