Moroccan Army Destroys Polisario Vehicle Near Sahara Defense Wall

This Monday, May 17, 2021, a group of mercenaries attempted to approach the military positions of the FAR in the Mahbès sub-sector, reports the Far-Maroc forum. The army’s response did not wait. Gunfire from the Moroccan army allowed the destruction of a 4-wheel drive military vehicle and forced the separatists to return to Algerian territory, the same source specifies.

Before this retaliation, the FAR elements present in the Sahara had destroyed two 4-wheel drive vehicles of the Polisario after the militiamen of the separatist movement had tried to approach the area east of the security wall. The vehicles caught fire, and the Polisario militiamen on board were killed, it is specified.

On April 21, the Polisario leader was urgently admitted to a hospital in Logroño, near Saragossa, under the assumed name of Mohamed Ben Battouche, Algerian nationality. This hospitalization is at the origin of new tensions between Morocco and Spain. Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad, denounced the "à la carte relationship" that Madrid maintains with Rabat. The victims of the leader of the separatist movement are demanding that justice be done. Brahim Ghali is summoned to appear before the Spanish justice on June 1.