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The Ministry of

Defense

and the

Ministry

of

Foreign Affairs

have publicly clashed today about the controls that the leader of

the Polisario Front

, Brahim Ghali, had to pass, or not, after his landing at the

Zaragoza Air Base

on April 18, to be treated in a hospital in

Logroño

.

Its reception in

Spain

is being investigated by the head of the court number 7 of Zaragoza, after the complaint of the lawyer

Antonio Urdiales Gálvez

for possible falsification, prevarication and concealment. As

El Heraldo de Aragón

has advanced

,

in the letter sent to the judge by the General Chief of Air Mobility of the military base,

José Luis Ortiz-Cañavate

, it is alleged that the identity of the person who arrived that day in a official plane of the Government of

Algeria

because "the passports were not requested".

The reason is that "orders were received by telephone from the International Relations Section of the

General Staff of the Air Force

that the personnel traveling on the plane should not pass passport or customs control."

And it points out that the instruction to the General Staff of the Air Force not to carry out these procedures was produced "by the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation."

The air base, he points out, only learned that "telephone information was received that a patient with an Algerian diplomatic passport was traveling on the plane who came on a medicalized stretcher and was accompanied by a person."

However, in the same report it is admitted that the returnee had authorization to land at the Zaragoza military base as a "State aircraft" and was also covered by the "permanent diplomatic authorization" from Spain to the Government of Algeria.

From Defense it is pointed out that it is a response from the Air Force to a request for information from the judge, in which the Ministry has no implication.

But foreign sources have been forced today to clarify that "the traditional practice in Spain", which is applied regularly at the Torrejón Air Base, is "not to control the passports carried by passengers arriving on a flight official "and therefore, they need," with the pertinent authorizations ".

"Diplomatic courtesy"

"It is a frequent diplomatic courtesy in many countries, although passengers are obliged to carry their travel documentation in case it is required at any time by the competent authority," they add.

This means that the diplomatic cover given to Ghali by the transfer on an Algerian government plane allowed him to avoid passport control.

The leader of the Polisario Front arrived in Spain with his own documentation but registered at the Logroño hospital under a false name.

His reception caused a diplomatic clash between Spain and

Morocco

, which is still open.

The biggest crisis in two decades that Ghali brought to light but that in reality had been produced by the refusal of the Spanish Government to recognize the Moroccan sovereignty of the

Sahara

after it did so, breaking the international consensus, Donald Trump.

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