2010年11月15日月曜日

Spanish Foreign Ministry able to remove two hidden Spanish activists in LaAyoune in Western Sahara, 15/Nov/2010

Exteriores logra sacar a dos activistas españoles ocultos en El Aaiún

Silvia García y Javier Sopeña abandonan el Sáhara tras recibir garantías de que su salida sería segura.- Expulsado también un periodista francés que informó para RNE

IGNACIO CEMBRERO - Rabat - 15/11/2010
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Foreign able to remove two hidden Spanish activists in LaayouneSilvia García and Javier Sopena leave the Sahara after receiving assurances that his departure would be secure .- Expelled also a French journalist who reported for RNE
Ignacio Cembrero - Rabat - 15/11/2010
"I will guarantee safe passage." The strong words of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Trinidad Jiménez, not enough to convince the other side of the phone, the young Catalan Isabel Terrace to leave his hideout along with his partner of fatigue, the Mexican Antonio Velasquez, who lives in Barcelona. Both are hidden for a week at the home of Saharawi in Laayoune.
Two other activists, Extremadura and the Canary Javier Sopena Silvia García, yes they were persuaded by their families, who spoke with Jimenez by phone. Both came at last to the streets yesterday, and after some adventures, came to Las Palmas where they caught a flight to Madrid.
At the protest camp Agdaym Izik, built on the outskirts of Laayoune, spent, before its dismantling, a few supporters of the Saharawi independence movement, but when Moroccan security forces dismantled what remained only four in the interior, three Spanish and a Mexican of two different associations, and Sahara Sahrawi resistance Thawra (Revolution in the Sahara).
Mixed in with the thousands of Sahrawi walked Laayoune sought shelter in the city where, at least during the first days, police searched them diligently. Djimi the Ghalia, a popular Sahrawi independence, it suffered in the flesh. Several police officers raided the home last week asking where he had gone to foreigners.
The Spanish government was concerned that the arrest, if produced, would be violent. The minister made a pact with his counterpart, Taieb Fassi-Fihri, that if the four young men emerged would not be arrested and could leave the country with dignity. "We were promised that they would direct even the word," said one diplomat.
To further secure the Moroccan Interior Ministry on Saturday issued a statement inviting them "to come before the safety authority or the administration closer to help them leave the country." On any of them "weighs a search warrant and arrest (...) because they have not broken the law," he concluded.
Soper and Garcia decided finally to call Maria Collado, a foreign official in charge in the Sahara to the custody of the assets of the Spanish state but has no consular jurisdiction. Jiménez felt it was the ideal man to get them out of trouble. The two activists and the "repository" as Collins called in diplomatic language, gathered at a church where they picked this. He could not go find the house where they were staying because they corresponded to rat out those who had given them refuge.
Collins House were moved to Spain, the headquarters of the depository. "We were a squad of plainclothes Moroccan police," said Soper to your phone from the airport. "We had no passports and money and it was necessary to issue laissez-passer and give us tickets." Aboard the flight Binter they moved to Las Palmas coincided with another journalist expelled, French Guillaume Bontoux, who works for Radio Exterior.
"We are delighted that Javier and Silvia are flying to the Canary Islands," says Velazquez Mexican phone. "But we are meant more people," he adds, and therefore suspect that the "custodian" does not have sufficient authority to the Moroccans. Are being asked to pick a career diplomat. Velazquez, who discovered the cause of the Saharawi independence movement in Barcelona, he spoke on behalf of the camp to the international press.
Despite their prolonged confinement activists are lucky compared with the Saharawi independence. Six of those involved in the revolt of Laayoune be tried by a military court in Rabat on charges of "criminal gang up," prosecutors said. At least 99 other shall be for an ordinary criminal court. With the exception of a frustrated hint in 2009, no civilian has been tried so far, during the reign of Mohammed VI, who sit military.
Among those who will sit on the bench of the military court set the intellectual Saharan Ennaama Asfari, married to the French Claude Mangin. "He is being held from November 7 at night and neither I nor anyone in my family have been informed or seen him," complains from Paris.


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