The judge of the 'Ghali case': "The Prime Minister directed the operation"

• The State Lawyer: "An attempt was made to stealthily protect the interest of Spain against third countries"

The judge investigating the entry into Spain of the leader of the Polisario Front

blames

for the arrival of the historic Saharawi leader and places him as the director of the operation.

This is how he concludes it in a car, to which EL MUNDO has had access, in which he decides to file the proceedings for number two of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

(charged until now) and maintain the former minister of the area as an investigator Arantxa Gonzalez Laya.

Judge

is blunt about the degree of knowledge of the device that brought Ghali to Spain and that unleashed last April the biggest diplomatic crisis with Morocco in recent years.

"Taking into account that authorities and qualified officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior and Defense participated in this operation and that the heads of each of these Ministries do not direct instructions or orders to those who depend on any of the other two ministries, except expressly ratified by its owner, and since their action was immediate and coordinated, what the law tells us is that the Prime Minister directed this joint action".

And he insists: "The final decision corresponded to the President of the Government."

The car is the answer to the request of the State Attorney to dismiss the matter for Laya and Villarino, their sponsors.

According to the record, the Prosecutor's Office interested in the provisional file regarding Villarino and González Laya.

The popular accusation exercised by the lawyer Antonio Urdiales, for his part, opposed the request of the State Attorney.

The magistrate has agreed with the

's Office that the provisional file would be appropriate "at least in terms of the documentary falsehood attributed to the two represented by the Lawyers", in reference to the former minister and her chief of staff.

"Until now, no indication has been obtained that they participated in the falsification of a personal identification document or in the presentation of it at the Hospital de San Pedro, in Logroño," he said.

Judge Lasala considered that "it is also not possible to speak of a cover-up of the crimes for which Brahim Ghali was being investigated in two different cases before a Central Investigating Court."

He explained that the cover-up implies that those under investigation had to know the commission of the crime, "something difficult to predict."

Regarding the possible prevarication, which has been the main reason for the investigation to date, the head of the Court has admitted that "it is not easily appreciable, especially with respect to Camilo Villarino for what will be said later, although its existence at the present time cannot be dismissed."

Lasala explained that "what is really important for the purposes of prevarication" is to clarify whether it was decided to assist Brahim Ghali and allow him access to Spain "knowing that his statement as being investigated in two criminal cases was interested and his location was attempted in several times, agreeing not to communicate anything to the Central Court of Instruction" and "also ensuring the necessary conditions so that no one could do so".

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