An investigation questions Marlaska again about the tragedy in Melilla by accounting for a deceased in Spain

MADRID, 29 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

An investigation by various media under the Lighthouse Reports consortium has indicated this Tuesday that at least one migrant died on Spanish soil in the Melilla tragedy on June 24, which questions the official version of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande. -Marlaska.

The head of the Ministry of the Interior, who will appear again in Congress this Wednesday to speak about this tragedy, maintains that "no tragic event" occurred in Spain, which is why the 23 migrants who died on 24-J -- some 70 according to the version of various NGOs-- registered on the Moroccan side of the border.

In line with the BBC documentary, now Lighthouse Reports - the same consortium that denounced the violation of human rights by Frontex, the EU border agency - refers to its own visual reconstruction that supposedly shows that the people crushed at the border did not have healthcare and at least one migrant died.

According to the new investigation published by 'El País' together with other media such as 'Le Monde', 'Der Spiegel' and 'Enass', one of the 35 witnesses interviewed assures that a person died on the Spanish side, while in the images he sees the Moroccan agents themselves taking the pulse and confirming the death.

This person identifies a friend as the deceased seen in the video, which shows Moroccan agents dragging him to their side of the border from the area that has been identified in the investigation as Spanish.

A total of 134 sub-Saharan Africans out of the 2,000 who tried to cross into Spain on 24-J managed to access the temporary detention center for foreigners and, according to the Ombudsman, another 470 were rejected at the border from the Spanish side that day.

The investigation collects testimonies that suggest that there were many migrants who vanished after passing the last fence that separates both countries. "The Spanish agents tied their hands and handed them over to the Moroccans, who then beat them, despite the dangerous situation they faced when they were returned to Morocco," according to these testimonies.

In this sense, the investigation sponsored by Lighthouse Reports mentions that it has interviewed Spanish officials, who confirm the "precise" location of the Spanish side of the border. They include a video of the Civil Guard helicopter.

Congress hosted last Friday the viewing of the videos delivered to the Prosecutor's Office and the Ombudsman. The interior spokesmen for the political parties reiterated their criticism of Grande-Marlaska, whom they accuse of lying by denying that "tragic events" were recorded on the Spanish side of the border in a "very violent assault."