Moroccan Consulate in Spain Fires Security Guard After Violent Incident Caught on Video

A video taken by a witness with his phone shows the agent in question hitting the Moroccan with a baton inside the consulate premises. Considering the agent’s behavior "violent and exaggerated," the Moroccan consulate in Murcia has decided to part ways with him, reports La Opinión de Murcia.

"The consulate deeply regrets this unacceptable incident and has requested the immediate replacement of the private security agent for his violent and exaggerated behavior towards a Moroccan citizen within an institution whose function is to provide consular services and legal assistance to its citizens in safe circumstances," the consulate said in a statement signed by Consul Sanaa Merouah.

However, the consulate fails to specify that it was the consular services that requested the security guard to remove the individual. And at no time, during the long minutes of the altercation, did we see a consulate employee intervene between the two people.

The note informs that "a police investigation has been opened to determine the responsibilities in this incident" and that "the consulate will closely follow the investigation and its results." The events took place on Tuesday, October 22, when the Moroccan went to the consulate, accompanied by his wife, to retrieve his passport. While the wife was able to obtain her passport, the consulate services kept the man waiting for about two and a half hours.

Tensions rise and the security guard is called in to remove the MRE. The two men had an altercation that escalated. This is not the first scandal to tarnish this consulate. In late April, the court had ordered the institution to reinstate an employee and pay her damages.