The PP accuses the Government of denying asylum to a Christian Sudanese who tried to enter Melilla in the June assault

MADRID, 2 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PP has criticized the Government for not having resolved the asylum request made on December 13 at the embassy in Rabat (Morocco) by Basir, a young Sudanese Christian who tried to enter Spain on June 24 in the assault to the Valla de Melilla that resulted in the death of numerous migrants.

As recounted by the 'popular' in the letter they have addressed to the Government, Basir, from the State of South Kordofan, lost his father and brother at the age of 15, who were assassinated in the midst of the armed conflict. He survived the attack in his village, Durban, and tried to take refuge hundreds of kilometers away in the house of his relatives, but they tried to force him to convert to Islam.

In order for the Government to give explanations, the PP has requested the appearance in Congress of the Undersecretary of the Interior, Isabel Goicoehea Aranguren. In addition, the spokesperson in the Foreign Affairs Commission; her deputy, Pablo Hispán, and the Interior spokesperson, Ana Vázquez, have presented a battery of questions on the same subject.

Specifically, they want to know "what is the reason that neither Basir nor his Spanish lawyers were attended to or received by the Spanish consulate in Rabat and what steps the Executive is taking to give him asylum.

"Now that Pedro Sánchez has free time in Rabat, from the PP we ask him to be interested in the request for asylum in the Spanish Embassy, ​​of this young Sudanese Christian," Ana Vázquez wrote on the social network Twitter, taking advantage of the summit Hispano-Moroccan--Albares and Marlaska are there too and they must solve it, their lives are in danger every day!