Judge Rejects Intelligence Reports in Polisario Leader Ghali Torture Case

The judge rejected the request of Ghali’s lawyer, Manuel Ollé, on the grounds that these reports are not related to the case under investigation, according to judicial sources cited by Europa Press. Thus, the judge aligned himself with the position of the prosecution, which had already expressed its opposition to taking these confidential documents into account in the context of a judicial investigation.

Ghali’s defense insisted that these reports be accepted by the judge in the context of the complaint filed by the Sahrawi activist, Fadel Breica, who accuses the Polisario Front leader of torture in the Tindouf camps in 2019. These reports, written on May 18 and June 24, 2021, in the midst of the diplomatic crisis between Rabat and Madrid, "would prove the fallacious motives" of Breica’s complaint.

To read: Spanish Prosecutors Oppose Release of Intelligence Reports in Polisario Leader Case

According to the June 24, 2021 report, the Moroccan intelligence services carried out "a dual judicial and media strategy" in order to harass Ghali and "tarnish his image in the press". This, in order to "put pressure on the Spanish government" to review its position on the Sahara, argued Ghali’s lawyer, stating that the report mentions the name of Fadel Breica as a Moroccan intelligence agent serving the Directorate General of Studies and Documentation (DGED).

It should be noted that Breica’s complaint against Ghali is the only one that has not yet been dismissed by the National High Court, the one filed by the Sahrawi Association for the Defense of Human Rights (ASADEDH) for alleged crimes of genocide having already been dismissed. On the Saragossa court side, Judge Rafael Lasala continues to investigate Ghali’s entry into Spain, particularly the false passport he presented upon arrival at the San Pedro de Logroño hospital on April 18, 2021.