The serious accusation has a face.

Abdelaaziz Yaakoub, whom his friends called Anwar, came from Sudan.

His journey to Europe ended at the Spanish border fence of Melilla.

The 27-year-old Sudanese is one of 23 migrants who died on June 24 trying to cross the barriers around the Spanish exclave from Morocco.

The Spanish newspaper "El País" and other European media reconstructed the incident in detail and spoke to more than 40 eyewitnesses.

At the beginning of November, the British broadcaster BBC made similar allegations.

Hans Christian Roessler

Political correspondent for the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb based in Madrid.

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The new details are increasing the pressure on Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska.

In front of the parliament last week he confirmed that there had been "no fatalities in Spanish territory".

The police reacted "proportionately and correctly".

But even in his own coalition, junior partner Podemos has growing doubts about his portrayal.

As human rights activists report, five months after the violent excesses at the border, 77 migrants are still missing.

They therefore fear significantly more than the 23 deaths that are still officially mentioned.

A young Sudanese man, Anwar, has footage showing him lying lifeless on the Spanish-controlled side of the terminal;

Moroccan security forces were also on duty there that morning.

"You are an animal, you must die"

"He was killed right before my eyes.

There was heavy tear gas fire.

Then a Moroccan soldier hit him on the back of the head.

Another soldier jumped his boots onto his chest.

When they realized that he was dead, they collected rubbish and covered him with it," says an eyewitness named Ibrahim in the El País research, in which Der Spiegel was also involved.

The Moroccan human rights organization AMDH has three other witnesses to Anwar's death.

The unemployed mechanic first made his way to Libya in 2021, from where he tried in vain to get to Italy.

He continued to Algeria.

There he was deported to Niger.

From Morocco, he hoped to finally make it to Europe to earn money to care for his seriously ill mother.

Another Sudanese reports in the reconstruction of a second man who was trampled in the stampede on the Spanish side of the border gate, which the migrants had violently opened.

Officials from the Spanish Guardia Civil are observing the crackdown of the Moroccan officials who, according to the latest research, are using at least 20 canisters of tear gas.

This contributed to the mass panic in the fenced area in front of the gate.

Injured migrants later lay tied up in the sun for hours without being helped, although ambulance vehicles were ready.

"You are an animal, you must die," a Moroccan policeman said, as a Darfurian recalled.

The Moroccan government is silent on the serious allegations and at best refers to the violence used by the migrants.

This was also emphasized by the Spanish interior minister, who said they were armed with clubs and machetes.

With a view to possible deaths on the Spanish side, Interior Minister Grande-Marlaska spoke of “tragic incidents outside our national borders”.

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, meanwhile, has criticized the "pushbacks" in Melilla.

Spanish police officers are accused of immediately turning 470 migrants back without being able to ask for asylum.

This figure comes from a report by the Ombudsman of the Spanish Parliament.