The judge archives the 'Ghali case' until receiving a response from Algeria or until the son of the Polisario leader appears

Charge Ghali's son for the false passport that was presented at the San Pedro de Logroño Hospital

MADRID, 12 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The head of Investigating Court Number 7 of Zaragoza has agreed to provisionally archive the investigation into the alleged crime of document falsification related to the passport with which the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, was identified at the San Pedro de Logroño Hospital after landing at the Zaragoza Air Base in a medicalized plane from Algeria in April 2021.

In an order, to which Europa Press has had access, he has specified that he will reopen the procedure "at the moment" in which he receives the letter rogatory that he sent to Algeria to clarify the origin of the passport or when the State Security Forces and Bodies with the whereabouts of Ghali's son, whom he has now cited as the main person investigated in the case.

Specifically, Judge Rafael Lasala has agreed to cite as investigated Luali Brahim Sid El Mustafa, son of the leader of the Polisario Front, as the "indicative author" of the alleged crime of documentary falsification that is being investigated regarding the passport that was presented at the hospital .

Within the framework of the resolution, the head of the court has issued "general orders for the location" of Ghali's son "throughout the national territory" to ascertain the whereabouts of the now-investigated man with the intention that he appear before the court in 10 days. court. As the judge has specified, if he does not go to court, the man will be "declared a rebel."

The decision takes place after last April the judge summoned Ghali's son as a witness to clarify every time that during an interrogation in court a worker at the San Pedro de Logroño Hospital, where Ghali was hospitalized, ensured that the son of the Polisario could have been the person who brought the false passport to the health center.

One of the accusations asked the magistrate that said summons be investigated, but the head of the court refused, considering it "adventurous."

Now, however, the judge has explained that the Saharawi Delegation in Spain itself sent an email to the court indicating that it was "totally" unaware of the facts under investigation --that is, the delivery of the false passport at the hospital--.

It has also indicated that later the representative of the Polisario Front in Spain personally informed that the Saharawi Delegation was unaware of everything related to Ghali's trip to Spain, "completely ignoring" the hospital admission and any steps that were made with the Spanish authorities for said trip. .

Thus, the magistrate has considered that "the initial belief" that Brahim Ghali and his son "were accompanied by a good number of members of the Saharawi Delegation in Spain has been discredited by this same organization and its representative in Spain, which leads to the starting point."

In this sense, the judge has once again defended the hypothesis that "Ghali was accompanied to the hospital by the only person who on that trip had permission to access Spanish soil accompanying him, his son Luali Brahim, who forcibly handed over to the Hospital administration the false passport with a false name, since his father, due to his precarious state of health, was not in a position to carry out the entry procedures".

For the head of the court, Ghali's son is now "the probable author of the falsehood that was denounced."

Thus, the judge has agreed to charge Luali Brahim Sid El Mustafa and file the proceedings until the authorities find his whereabouts, unknown since April -when he was summoned as a witness-, or until Algeria responds to the commission rogatory that he released months ago.

It should be remembered that the head of the court asked the Algerian authorities if the number that appears in the passport corresponds to any file that has been processed and "if they know as true the identity of the person who is identified there, Mohamed Benbatouche", born September 19, 1950.

The Investigating Court Number 7 of Zaragoza has focused on the passport and not on Ghali's entry into Spain after the Provincial Court ordered it to close the investigation against the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Arancha González Laya for alleged crimes of prevarication and cover-up as a result of the entry of the Saharawi politician without going through border controls or documentation.