With the information currently in the hands of the Government, it is inadmissible for Minister

Fernando Grande-Marlaska to continue to defend his first version of the assault on the Melilla valley

in which, according to official sources, 23 migrants perished, according to official sources, trying to enter the Spain.

The journalistic investigations -the BBC documentary and the report published this week by the international group Lighthouse Report-, the statements of the Interior Commission

displaced to the autonomous city, the testimony of the NGOs and the criticism of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe do not seem to affect the head of the Interior, who

is entrenched in the victimizing discourse of being the object of media and political persecution

, and maintains without any nuance that the actions of the Spanish security forces at the border were proportional, professional, in accordance with the law, and that no deaths took place in Spanish territory.

Equally unacceptable is the silence of the president,

Pedro Sanchez

, who only spoke to insist that Grande-Marlaska "is a great minister."

The socialist wing of the Executive has remained isolated in the stubborn defense of a version of the facts.

It is necessary to study carefully and without pressure the material contributed by journalists, security forces and NGOs, but

Everything indicates at this moment that there are reasonable doubts about what really happened on Spanish soil

.

However, the search for the truth collides with the inexplicable silence and the lack of collaboration from the Government.

This attitude seriously damages Spain's reputation in the rest of the world, where the deadly incident has been reported by the media.

And, even more worrisome,

already affects the credibility of our country before the European Union

, whose rotating presidency will be held by Pedro Sánchez in the second half of 2023. The ambiguous message sent by the

unusually frequent visits by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, to his Moroccan counterpart

after the historic turn undertaken unilaterally by Pedro Sánchez on Western Sahara and the suspicions that Rabat would have spied on the Spanish Executive with the Pegasus program.

"Cooperation with other states must be done

respecting human rights

», the Council of Europe warned Spain this week, concerned about Moncloa's lack of collaboration in this case, more typical of a country where democratic values ​​are acted with contempt, as is the case of Morocco.

The Government, previously a standard-bearer for the reception of migrants, is now obliged to clarify the tragedy that occurred in Melilla, the result of the migration strategy with which Morocco blackmails Spain.

The Home Office cannot now wash its hands

.

Grande-Marlaska, in addition, must provide the few outstanding border agents with better riot control equipment and with the individual recording cameras that the agents have been demanding for years.

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