Gema Peñalosa Madrid

Madrid

Updated Tuesday, January 23, 2024-13:37

  • Courts The Supreme Court considers illegal the repatriation of minors to Morocco after the 2021 avalanche in Ceuta

  • Justice The Supreme Prosecutor's Office considers the repatriation of minors from Ceuta illegal in 2021

Fernando Grande-Marlaska has validated the actions of "all the authorities" that participated in the repatriation of minors from Ceuta in 2021, one day after the Supreme Court censured the actions.

The Minister of the Interior has spoken in these terms before his intervention in the

Interior

Committee that is being held in Congress.

"As always, I have absolute respect for all judicial resolutions" and then he added: "And I also have the absolute conviction that the authorities acted with the full conviction of complying with the legal system and the best interests of the minor, which is a principle essential".

"I am convinced that the authorities acted inspired by the interest of the minor," he concluded.

Yesterday, Monday, the

Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the high court

, in agreement with the

Prosecutor's Office

, confirmed that the rights to physical and moral integrity of the minors returned to Morocco in the summer of 2021 were violated.

More than 10,000 minors from Morocco entered

Ceuta

en masse in May 2021 during the climax of the diplomatic crisis with Rabat.

The episode occurred on August 13 of last year, three months after more than

10,000 people violated

the Ceuta fence with the approval of the Moroccan authorities, who did not forgive Pedro Sánchez for having welcomed the leader of the Polisario Front

Brahim Ghali.

.

The autonomous city then counted 1,108 unaccompanied adolescents from Morocco.

The minors were expelled again without the necessary guarantees, as determined by the courts.

After the setback due to the dismissal of Colonel Pérez de los Cobos for having refused to provide information to the Government in the pandemic, the High Court dealt a new blow to Fernando Grande-Marlaska.

The High Court confirmed that the rights to physical and moral integrity

of the minors returned to Morocco were violated

since it cannot be denied that some of them suffered some type of physical or mental illness.

According to the TS, the Administration did not put the interest of the adolescents in its sights or verify their individual circumstances, as the Minister of the Interior has insisted in his statements.