The judge of the 'Ghali case' rejects the request of the Prosecutor's Office to send the investigation to a court in Logroño

He says that "the nest of ambiguities" in which the cause has become "disadvises an inhibition"

MADRID, 14 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The head of the Court of Instruction Number 7 of Zaragoza has rejected the request of the Prosecutor's Office to send the so-called 'Ghali case' to a judge in Logroño now that the case focuses on the alleged forgery of the passport of the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali , and not when entering Spanish territory through the Zaragoza Air Base on the night of April 18, 2021 without passing identification or border control.

In a car, to which Europa Press has had access, the magistrate Rafael Lasala has assured that "the nest of ambiguities and ignorance that this cause has become advises against inhibition." In his opinion, sending the case to a court in Logroño would be a "risky" action.

The Public Ministry had asked Judge Lasala to refrain and refer the procedure to a court in Logroño so that the latter could investigate the passport with which Ghali was identified --under another name-- at the San Pedro Hospital in Logroño , where he was admitted in April 2021 after landing on Spanish soil in a medicalized plane from Algeria.

As stated in the order that the judge has now issued, the two accusations that participate in the case showed their opposition to the request of the Public Ministry.

The Prosecutor's request took place after Judge Lasala issued a rogatory commission to Algeria to ask its authorities for the Polisario leader's passport. The Zaragoza magistrate agreed to said diligence after the Public Ministry itself made the request.

Specifically, the head of the court asked the Algerian authorities if the number that appears in the passport corresponds to a file that has been processed and "if they know the identity of the person identified there, Mohamed Benbatouche, to be true." born on 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 him to file the investigation that was being carried out 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.

Now, in the order in which he has answered the Prosecutor's Office, the judge has stressed that he cannot be inhibited because the possible documentary falsehood that is being investigated is "related to the prevarication not ruled out by the Court (Provincial of Zaragoza), since it agreed on the provisional dismissal and not free".