The director general for political affairs of the Alawi kingdom's foreign ministry urged a transparent investigation in Spain

Marruecos asegura que hay cuatro generales argelinos implicados en el "caso Ghali"

photo_camera PHOTO/REUTERS - Brahim Ghali, secretary general of the Polisario Front

The Moroccan government assured that there are "four generals from a Maghreb country", in an obvious allusion to Algeria, implicated in the "fraudulent and falsified documents" entry into Spanish territory of the Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, a presence which has provoked an unprecedented crisis between Rabat and Madrid.

The Director General of Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fouad Yazourh, said today in a statement to the press that in Spain "an investigation must be carried out, which we hope will be transparent, to shed light on this whole case", and that this investigation "may reveal numerous surprises".

Among them, he said, "the complicity (in Ghali's admission to Spain, where he is hospitalised for coronavirus) and the interference of four generals from a Maghreb country", which he did not name, although in previous days the Foreign Ministry itself has stressed that Ghali entered Spain with an Algerian passport and from Algiers.

"And we will reveal more details at the appropriate time", Yazourh said, thanks to the fact that "the Moroccan (intelligence) services are among the most effective", and that it was they who revealed Ghali's presence in Spain on 19 April.

For the rest, Yazourh repeated the ideas expressed two days ago by Minister Nasser Bourita that Spain "must explain to its public opinion" the details of Ghali's entry, above all because "they know that he is being prosecuted by Spanish citizens, in Spanish courts and for crimes committed partly in Spain".

For the moment, he concluded, Spain "has taken sides between the victims of abject crimes and the criminal responsible for the death of dozens of Spaniards, as well as rape, torture and disappearances", in reference to the crimes of which Ghali is accused.

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