The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has highlighted that the June 24 tragedy at the Melilla fence, in which at least 23 people died, was an "intolerable and violent attempt" for the irregular entry of 1,700 immigrants, for which has defended the "firm, serene and proportionate" response of the State.

He has done so in the plenary session of Congress this Wednesday, where he

has appeared three months after

the events after repeated requests for explanations by the entire parliamentary arch and on the same day that the trial in Morocco against several of the migrants resumes arrested for the assault.

"It is evident that we are talking about an episode of violent attempted irregular entry that is unjustifiable," the minister remarked, reports Europa Press, after recounting chronologically what happened on

June 24

in the Moroccan town of Nador on its border with Melilla .

Marlaska has said that "a democratic country" in no way "can accept that its border and the agents that "guard and protect" it are attacked

"with the throwing of stones, sticks and even homemade incendiary devices"

carried out by 1,700 people.

As stated at five in the morning that day, the Moroccan security forces alerted the Civil Guard that a

"very large" and "organized"

group was advancing towards the fence "carrying offensive objects and sticks."

Two hours later, he continued, the operational center of the Melilla command detects the presence of some 1,700 people.

The minister has detailed that the Moroccan authorities tried to avoid the first approach, although they were overtaken by another

"extremely violent"

group that managed to gain access to the interior of the Moroccan customs after violently forcing the doors with the use of "maces, axes and other blunt objects.

Meanwhile, another hundred migrants climbed the outer wall of the Moroccan fence that ended up collapsing, so that at 8:20 a.m. there were some

1,700 migrants inside the border

area divided into two groups.

Marlaska explained that part of the group finally entered "no man's land", generating a "traffic jam" that put the integrity of hundreds of people at risk, which is repeated when the group forces a second door also on the Moroccan side.

Despite the fact that around a hundred people managed to enter Melilla, the minister stressed that the actions of the agents of the Guarida Civil and the National Police "blocked" the entry of the majority and managed to reduce their violent attitude through the use of "timely and proportionate material at your disposal, including anti-riot material."

He has concluded the account of the events by recalling that they proceeded to "reject at the border , in

accordance with the established procedures

, those people who were intercepted trying to enter Spain irregularly and violently before being able to do so".

During his initial twenty-minute speech before the plenary session, the head of the Interior explained that 55 civil guards were injured and there was damage to seven vehicles and equipment.

MOROCCO VETS THREE MEPs

Moroccan authorities on Tuesday prevented Spanish MEPs

Miguel Urbán and Pernando Barrena

from entering their territory from Melilla , members of a delegation from the parliamentary group La Izquierda, who is in the autonomous city investigating the deadly jump to the fence last 24 of June.

As Urbán, an MEP from Anticapitalistas, has denounced on his Twitter, the Moroccan Police prevented him, Barrena (EH Bildu) and the German Cornelia Ernst (Die Linke) from crossing the border crossing to go to the city of Nador.

In a statement, he specified that they were denied access "even before we could deliver our passports and without any explanation on their part."

Along with the three MEPs travel representatives of several European NGOs and lawyers, up to

a total of 16 people.

The MEP has argued that

"they have to hide something"

both the Moroccan authorities and the Spanish Government in relation to the "murders" of immigrants that occurred that day - around thirty according to the authorities -, disfiguring the refusal of the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, to appear before the European Parliament and also his rejection of an investigation commission.

"What they want to hide are the murders of more than 40 people on the European borders," he added.

Urbán has defended that "both the European Parliament and the Spanish Government should say something about it, in addition to facilitating the appearance" of

Marlaska in the European Parliament,

requested in July by the Committee on Liberties, Justice and the Interior "to find out what happened that day at the Melilla fence, who was responsible and who or who gave the orders".

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