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Judge Garzon will investigate on the "crimes" committed by Morocco in the Western Sahara since 1975  

  

Madrid, 07/03/2007 (SPS) The Public Minister for National Audience, the highest penal body in Spain asked the famous judge Baltasar Garzon to investigate on the accusations of "international crimes" committed by "32 Moroccan official and military personalities" in Western Sahara since 1975, the date of the occupation of this territory by Morocco, reported the Spanish newspaper, El Mundo, on Tuesday and quoted by the Algerian Press Service, l'APS.

 

These accusations are contained in a complaint presented last September the 14 to the high jurisdiction by a group of Spanish human right associations.

 

This demand was favourably admitted by the public Ministry, the newspaper stressed.

 

Consequently, Judge Garzon asked the plaintiff party to identify the crimes committed by each Moroccan official or military.

 

During the presentation of the complaint, Manuel Ollé Sesé, lawyer in the bureau of Madrid, President of the Spanish Human Rights Association (APDHE), has declared that the mentioned international crimes consist of acts of "genocide, torture, forced disappearance, sequestrations, assassinations ….". (SPS)

 

020/090/700/TRD 071125 MAR 07 SPS

 

 

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