The hospitalization in Spain of the leader of the Polisario, Brahim Ghali, wanted for war crimes and serious human rights violations, has sparked a first reaction of condemnation and rejection in the European Parliament. The European deputy Attila Ara-Kovacs spoke out against the attitude of Spain to host on its soil a notorious criminal. […]
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Madrid-Polisario cover up scandal sparks anti-Spain hashtags
The hashtags#Spain_protect_criminal #España_protege_criminal #اسبانيا_تحمي_المجرمين #Espagne_protège_les_criminels” are trending and going viral as thousands of social media users continue to lash out at Madrid’s collusion with Algerian military junta to smuggle in Polisario chief with false travel documents though he is wanted by Spanish justice for crimes against humanity. Across social media, especially Twitter, many users […]
Spain, Algeria caught in act of forgery
Ghali’s hospitalization in Spain under a false identity is an embarrassing intelligence failure for Spain and Algeria and a breakthrough for Morocco. Ghali entered Spain on board an Algerian airplane using an Algerian passport and a false identity putting to the test the Moroccan-Spanish partnership and cooperation. Spain and Algeria had agreed at the highest […]
Sahara: What if Morocco makes tit-for-tat response to Spain?
Following the American recognition of the Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara, Spanish government has frowned at the Trump historic and bold decision which took neighboring countries by surprise. As it could not challenge openly Washington’s move, Madrid, the former colonial power of Western Sahara, keeps fuming and edged closer to Algiers to the detriment of […]
Sahraoui woman adds her voice to rape victims who want Polisario leader before justice
Sahraoui woman Khadijatou Mahmoud urged the Spanish judiciary to activate a search warrant against Polisario leader Ibrahim Ghali who is currently hospitalized at a Spanish hospital. Khadijatou said she was raped in 2010 by Ghali, who was then the separatist front’s representative in Algiers, whom she sued at a Spanish court the same year. […]
Spain nabs Moroccan fugitive wanted over family murders
A Moroccan man suspected of stabbing to death six family members, including two minors, while they slept has been arrested in Spain, police said Sunday. The unidentified man is wanted in Morocco over his alleged role in the murders in February of his brother and his sister-in-law, as well as their two adult children […]
Morocco Protests Spain’s decision to host Polisario leader
Morocco’s foreign ministry issued a strong worded statement in which it expressed its disappointment at the Spanish decision to allow into its hospitals head of the Polisario militia Ibrahim Ghali who is wanted on war crime charges. Ghali entered Spain using an Algerian passport with a false name in order to shun arrest after several […]
Spanish Ambassador summoned to Morocco’s Foreign Ministry over Polisario leader hospitalization in Logroño
Moroccan Foreign Ministry has expressed its resentment and strong rejection of the Spanish move to hospitalize Polisario leader Ibrahim Ghali in one of its hospitals after he entered Spain with an Algerian passport using a fake name. Le360 and El Pais both reported, citing diplomatic sources, that the Spanish Ambassador was heard at Rabat’s Foreign […]
Calls mount for arrest of Polisario leader hospitalized in Spain
Spanish victims of Polisario terrorism and war crimes are putting pressure on their government to arrest the leader of the Algeria-backed separatist group who is receiving medical care in Logrono. Ghali, who is wanted by the Spanish justice, entered Spain using an Algerian passport with a fake name to avoid arrest. Ghali “should be arrested […]
Morocco, Spain discuss revival of fixed link project via Gibraltar Strait
The revival of the decades-old project to connect Africa to Europe via the strait of Gibraltar was discussed at a virtual meeting Wednesday between the Moroccan and Spanish Transport Ministers Abdelkader Amara and Jose Luis Abalos. This meeting, held through video-conference as part of the two countries’ mutual interest in further strengthening their bilateral […]