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The study, realised by the Basque Country University has been presented in court.
Apr 3, 2015 - 8:18 AM
A new report considers the use of anti-riot material contributed to the deaths of the immigrants in Ceuta
The study, realised by the Basque Country University has been presented in court.
Apr 3, 2015 - 8:18 AM
It questions the official version on what happened on February 6 2014 on the Tarajal beach in Ceuta when 15 immigrants drowned when trying to reach the Spanish coast.
The author of the study is the forensic scientist and researcher Luis Callado, who considers the anti-riot material used by the agents from the Guardia Civil to repel the entry of the South Saharans influenced in their death.
‘It concludes that elements exist related to the security services use of rubber bullets, smoke bombs, and tear gas which created an atmosphere of panic and these things could have contributed in a significant manner to the death of the people’
The news was broken on the Cadena Ser radio station, and on hearing it the socialist group in Parliament will call on Monday for the urgent appearance of the Interior Minister, Jorge Fernández Díaz, to give explanations.
The socialist spokesman on the Interior Commission, Antonio Trevín, considered that ‘the information given by the very minister in Parliament is inaccurate, to not say false in some cases and this is serious and must be cleared up’.
The report has been presented to the Instruction Court 6 in Ceuta and it also questions the actions of the Ceuta judiciary which has been ‘markedly deficient’ in some autopsies and ‘slightly deficient’ in others which had led to impossibility to say with certainty whether the injured suffered were caused pre or past death.
16 Guardia Civil on duty on that day are under investigation and their defence of the tragedy is based on the anti-riot material playing no part in their deaths, which they claim was caused when the immigrants huddled together.
The Tarajal beach - Archive photo
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The author of the study is the forensic scientist and researcher Luis Callado, who considers the anti-riot material used by the agents from the Guardia Civil to repel the entry of the South Saharans influenced in their death.
‘It concludes that elements exist related to the security services use of rubber bullets, smoke bombs, and tear gas which created an atmosphere of panic and these things could have contributed in a significant manner to the death of the people’
The news was broken on the Cadena Ser radio station, and on hearing it the socialist group in Parliament will call on Monday for the urgent appearance of the Interior Minister, Jorge Fernández Díaz, to give explanations.
The socialist spokesman on the Interior Commission, Antonio Trevín, considered that ‘the information given by the very minister in Parliament is inaccurate, to not say false in some cases and this is serious and must be cleared up’.
The report has been presented to the Instruction Court 6 in Ceuta and it also questions the actions of the Ceuta judiciary which has been ‘markedly deficient’ in some autopsies and ‘slightly deficient’ in others which had led to impossibility to say with certainty whether the injured suffered were caused pre or past death.
16 Guardia Civil on duty on that day are under investigation and their defence of the tragedy is based on the anti-riot material playing no part in their deaths, which they claim was caused when the immigrants huddled together.
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