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Fernando Grande-Marlaska, this Saturday, in Melilla.
To one side, the Minister of the Interior defending the police officers in the jumps to the fence of Melilla. On the other, the Ombudsman and humanitarian groups asking that the Prosecutor’s Office and the Ministry investigate police excesses by beating migrants who did not offer resistance. Fernando Grande-Marlaska He estimated this Saturday at 53 civil guards and police officers injured. “They have been attacked by an unusual and organized violence. Helmets and shields ended up broken. The assailants carried sticks larger than the police defenses. And there were hooks, hammers and screws, a risk for our servants. A Rule of Law is not must not allow its borders or its agents to be attacked”. When asked by journalists about the event in which some agents beat a migrant who was forced to get off the fence, the minister said that police action “is always subject to legality and our evaluation” and that it was “proportionate” . In the image you can see how the migrant goes down while he is holding on to the hooks so as not to fall. Before he hits the ground, one officer sprays him with spray and two others hit him with batons. Once on the ground, officers with helmets, shields and batons hit him repeatedly as he waves his arms. Already on the ground, the blows continue and an agent kicks the young man.
“It is shielding the rule of law”
“We risk a lot when the use of force is disproportionate. The Security Forces do their job well, but sometimes, due to fear or fatigue, they get out of hand. The wounded agents hurt us, but we must investigate police excesses to guarantee the rule of law,” says Pep Buades, of the Jesuit Migrant Service. “We are concerned about the identification of migrants in the CETI. On Thursday there were a hundred young people, many teenagers, wounded and dusty, among whom were Yemenis, Syrians, Malians, Chadians and Lebanese, countries at war. They have the right to international protection”. expensive mapleprofessor of Constitutional Law at the University of Córdoba and member of the Association for Human Rights-Andalusia, wonders: “Marlaska speaks of necessity and proportionality. Can anyone see it as necessary to spray gas and hit a man to lower him from a fence , and proportionately beat him to the ground afterwards? The Interior must analyze this so that all its general action has legitimacy. We defend the human rights of all, civil guards included. But we cannot ‘become a Putin’ and see an alternative reality. There is to show the full film. It cannot be that the minister is asked about pears and answers about lemons. Investigating police excesses is not undermining the Security Forces, it is shielding the rule of law”.
Complaint before the Prosecutor’s Office
Patricia Vicens, lawyer for the Coordinator of Neighborhoods: “There is another case where a boy is seen flying to the ground and being beaten by agents. It is likely that both migrants were returned hot, so they will not be able to testify here. We are going to file a complaint with the Prosecutor’s Office a possible criminal liability and to ask that it investigate whether the police action was in accordance with the regulations. In addition, some agents were not identified.” Ombudsman: “It is a disproportionate use of force by the agents.”
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