Spanish Court Probes Ex-Official’s Role in Polisario Leader’s Secret Entry

After analyzing the WhatsApp messages exchanged between Villarino and the military command, Judge Lasala concluded that the lieutenant general did not know the identity of the Polisario Front leader when he landed at the Zaragoza base in a medicalized plane from Algeria, according to judicial sources consulted by OKDIARIO.

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Camilo Villarino is under investigation for allegedly implementing the plan to bring Brahim Ghali into Spain and into a hospital in Logroño under a false identity. Villarino admitted, in a response to the judge, to having contacted "the second chief of the Air Force general staff, Francisco Javier Fernández Sánchez", so that he would not subject Ghali and his entourage to "customs or immigration procedures".

On September 13, the judge will hear the army general. On this occasion, he will seek to find out whether the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has misled a member of the Ministry of Defense and provoked a serious crisis between Morocco and Spain.

Ghali landed on April 18 at the Zaragoza military base and was then admitted to the San Pedro de Logroño hospital, under a false identity.