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The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has defended this Saturday from Melilla the police work during the jumps of migrants to the fence this week, he has estimated that 53 police officers and civil guards were injured with fractures and has assured that the action of a group of agents about an immigrant being beaten to the ground was "proportionate".

"The actions of the State Security Forces are always subject to legality and are subject to continuous evaluation by us. More than 50 agents have been violently attacked with sticks and hooks and are injured in various ways", answered Grande- Marlaska when several journalists have asked him about the images in which several agents are seen hitting an unarmed migrant on the ground, an event about which the Ombudsman has requested information from the Secretary of State for Security, assuring that it is of a "disproportionate use of force by the agents".

The minister has spoken briefly with the media after visiting in Melilla the agents injured during the jumps of some 850 people on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday of this week at the border fence.

He has said that there are police officers and civil guards with fractures due to the "unusual and organized violence" of the jump, carried out by migrants carrying "sticks, screws and hammers."

"A State of Law cannot allow its borders to be attacked or its agents to be attacked as well."

Likewise, Marlaska has recognized that the situation was "exceptional" and that it was an "extraordinary situation due to its violence and organization."

For this reason, it has justified that "in the face of an extraordinary situation, extraordinary measures and means were taken, such as the arrival of two complementary units of the Civil Guard and one of the Police Intervention Unit of the National Police: in total, a reinforcement of a hundred of agents".

Ukraine, "different situations"

The minister stated that "the identification and expulsion of those who do not have the right to stay in Spain and the protection of those who do. A rule of law must protect borders, its security agents and vulnerable people" will be carried out. .

Marlaska has also described as "partisan use" the comparison between the treatment given to Ukrainian migrants and Sub-Saharans.

"These are different situations. Spain and its government are in solidarity with vulnerable groups. But they cannot allow the borders and their agents to be violently attacked."

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