New attempt by Podemos and government partners to get Congress to investigate the Meilla tragedy

The PP does not rule out supporting it, but first it wants to listen to the Minister of the Interior and see the images

MADRID, 3 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

United We Can and parliamentary partners of the Government will join forces again to try to get Congress to open an investigation commission on the tragedy of the jump to the Melilla fence on June 24, in which thirty migrants died.

As parliamentary sources explain to Europa Press, the initiative will be formalized again as a result of the BBC documentary that questions the official version that was offered about the deaths of this day.

Last July, United We Can, ERC, Bildu, Más País, Compromís and the BNG already requested an investigation commission on the fulfillment of Human Rights on the border between Spain and Morocco in Ceuta and Melilla.

But already in September the PSOE, with the support of the PP, rejected in the Board of Spokespersons that the Plenary debate the opening of that investigation. Of course, the Socialists could not prevent the Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, from being called to appear before the Plenary Session of Congress and they referred to those explanations, considering a specific commission on what happened unnecessary.

Now the promoters of that initiative have decided to re-register it, including United We Can, whose leadership chose this Wednesday to take this step. Different members of the minority partner of the Executive have been insisting that these events are serious and should be clarified.

This Wednesday the spokeswoman for the Popular Group, Cuca Gamarra, did not rule out that her formation ends up supporting the investigation, although, first, they want to hear the explanations of the minister in parliament and be able to view the images shot that day by the border perimeter cameras.