Sánchez refers to the debate on the state of the nation in July to account for the assault on the Melilla fence

MADRID, 29 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has assured today that he will give an account of the assault on the Melilla fence in the debate on the state of the nation, where he "imagines" that the matter will arise, but he will not do so in a specific appearance as they are requesting the PP on the one hand and the parliamentary partners of the Executive on the other.

This was stated during an interview on Cadena Ser, collected by Europa Press, in which he revealed that during last Friday's assault on the fence, in which there were at least 23 deaths among immigrants, there were also Moroccan gendarmes deceased.

The head of the Executive has admitted that governments have to be held accountable, but has insisted that the culprits are the mafias that traffic in people. However, when asked if he will go to Parliament to explain what happened in the appearance that they are asking for, Pedro Sánchez has said that he "imagines" that this will be one of the debates that will arise in the debate on the state of the nation that will take place will hold in July.

"We will hold the nation-state debate in July, I imagine that it will be one of the debates that will come out and I am willing in that debate to be accountable on this issue," he specified, despite the fact that not only the PP has requested that he appear, but also the ERC , Bildu, Más País-Equo, Compromís and the PDeCAT, parliamentary allies of the coalition government. A petition that also bears the signature of Junts, the CUP and the BNG.

Sánchez, who has been hiding behind the fact that he had not seen the images when he said that the matter of the assault on the Melilla fence had been well resolved, has added that there are already three open investigations to clarify the facts.

One of them, he said, in Morocco, where 30 people have already been charged; another in the Spanish Prosecutor's Office and one more in the Ombudsman. In this sense, he has indicated that there will be "total collaboration" with these institutions to clarify the facts.

But he has pointed out that the important thing is to be aware that irregular immigration causes thousands of deaths on the Atlantic coast or in the Mediterranean, for which he has blamed the mafias.