Moroccan Man Assaulted by Security Guard at Spanish Consulate While Retrieving Passport

The facts date back to October 22, 2024 around half past ten in the morning. The couple had come to pick up his passport. The woman received her passport, but the man was asked to wait about two and a half hours. Tension mounts. Subsequently, they called the security guard to have the Moroccan expatriate removed. But an altercation broke out between the two men. The situation escalated. A video filmed by a witness shows the Spanish security guard, baton in hand, beating the Moroccan expatriate inside the premises. Several people intervened to try to separate the individuals involved in the brawl.

"This situation has already exceeded the limits," it is "unacceptable" and "an investigation is urgent," fumes Sabah Yacoubi, president of the Association of Moroccan Workers and Immigrants (ATIM) in Murcia and vice-president of ATIM Spain. And to question: "How is it possible that a Consulate, whose function is to represent its country and protect its citizens, ends up mistreating them?" According to her, the mistreatment and systematic dysfunction in this consulate "are intolerable." "The victim had done nothing wrong and, even if that were the case, violence is never a solution," she said.

Yacoubi also recalled the case of "the person who has been camping in his car for three years in front of the Consulate, demanding justice for a situation he experienced in Morocco." It is a woman, secretary of the Moroccan consul, who was "abusively" dismissed. She sued the former consul, Sidi Mohammed Biedallah, alleging that she had lost her job due to moral harassment. In late April, the Social Court No. 1 of Murcia examined the case. The judge declared the dismissal of the Moroccan expatriate null and void and ordered the Consulate to immediately reinstate the woman in her job. Biedallah is no longer serving as a diplomat in the region. He has been transferred to Bilbao.