González Laya, satisfied with the file on the 'Ghali case', but regrets that a humanitarian decision has become "muddied"

MADRID, 27 May. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former Minister of Foreign Affairs Arancha González Laya has maintained this Friday that she is "satisfied" with the file on the 'Ghali case', but has regretted that with this judicial procedure she has "muddied" a "strictly humanitarian" decision, in relation to the stay of the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, who was treated at a hospital in Logroño for coronavirus.

The Court of Zaragoza has ordered the file of the procedure that is followed in the Court of Instruction Number 7 of that locality against the former minister, seeing no evidence of a crime in her actions in the framework of the entry into Spain of the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, which took place on the night of April 18, 2021 and occurred without passing border controls or documentation in order to be transferred to a hospital in Logroño to be treated for covid.

"I am glad, I am satisfied that the Zaragoza Court, on the first occasion it has had to rule on this matter, has confirmed this version against the criteria of the investigating judge", the former minister transferred in an interview on Onda Cero, collected by Europe Press.

Laya has assured that this decision is "important" because it clarifies that Ghali was treated for humanitarian reasons and in accordance with the law "thus concluding a case that should never have happened."

"Any public servant has to abide by the law," Laya pointed out when asked if she would have informed the National High Court of Ghali's stay if she had known that the AN had open cases against the leader of the Polisario Front.

Of course, he has criticized that a political decision such as this was settled in court and even less in "criminal judicial headquarters" because, according to the former head of Spanish diplomacy, it should have been in parliament. Thus, she has shown her concern for the "judicialization of politics."

González Laya lamented that this so-called 'Ghali case' has served to "muddy" a decision that was "strictly humanitarian" and has highlighted that Spain has a "very clear" humanitarian tradition, as has been seen with the Ukrainian refugees or, previously, with Afghans and Sharauis.

"In my work, I have always been guided by defending the interests and values ​​of our country," he pointed out, while emphasizing that in the exercise of his duties as minister he has sought to protect the image and international position of Spain .