El caso Brahim Ghali, una "grave violación" de la legislación española

The reception by the Madrid government of the leader of the separatist militia "Polisario", Brahim Ghali, under a false identity, constitutes a "serious violation" of the Spanish law, declared the political analyst Omar Dahbi, underlining that this attitude has "discredited Spain before the European instances".

"An executive that has accepted to bypass the judicial power of its own country by welcoming on its territory an individual wanted by this same power with a false identity is capable of anything", explained Dahbi, who was the guest of the program "L'info en face" broadcasted by the channel "Matin TV", as published by the Moroccan daily Le Matin.
"Morocco felt stabbed in the back," said Dahbi, author of several books, including "Morocco-Spain: the war of shadows".
In this regard, he said that the case of Brahim Ghali discredits the Spanish government before the European instances, which wants to divert attention from this case and attract more European solidarity on the case of the recent events in Sebta.
Dahbi underlined that the use of the same procedure for the exfiltration of the leader of the separatists to leave the Spanish territory will have strong consequences on the relations between Morocco and Spain.

"Madrid has no reason to be indignant in this context. There are two parties that have the right to be outraged: Morocco, as a state, and the Spanish public opinion," he said, noting that the Kingdom has the right to be outraged because Spain has allowed a man wanted by the courts of his country to enter its territory under a false identity and the Spanish public opinion should normally be alarmed by these facts.
In this context, he pointed out that the "humanitarian reasons" invoked by Madrid for the reception and hospitalization of the separatist leader cannot prevail over the law.
In Dahbi's opinion, this is a "serious breach" of the Spanish Executive with its duty towards its own country and also towards the Spanish victims of this individual, and added that Spain has committed "a serious mistake" against a partner that has worked for years for the development of its relations with the Iberian neighbor in all its aspects.
He also said that "no parallel can be drawn" between the case of Brahim Ghali and the recent events of the migrants in Sebta because, he said, they are two totally different issues.
The political analyst said that the Spaniards excel in the art of diverting attention from a main case to a secondary or subsidiary one, just as their media also excel in fabricating a false image of Morocco that serves their interests.

Stressing that Moroccan diplomacy is based on several values and principles, Dahbi noted that the Kingdom fights cross-border organized crime out of conviction and duty to the international community.
"When Morocco also exchanges information on terrorism cases with other countries to spare them attacks, it does so because it firmly believes that it is a value to fight this scourge (...) . When the Kingdom fights against illegal immigration, it does so because it has established it as a philosophy and a doctrine," he continued.
Recalling that Spaniards have not yet grasped the extent of the change that the northern region has undergone, he stressed the opportunities created by Morocco around it to impose itself as a real haven of peace, prosperity and development, capable of allowing Europe to have a major gateway to Africa.
In this regard, he pointed out the absence of a clear long-term vision at the level of power in Spain towards its southern neighbors, especially Morocco, noting that the Spanish are positioned in a short-term attitude and suffer from the lack of real governmental cohesion and true statesmen in the field of Spanish decision-making.
Referring to the question of the Moroccan Sahara, Dahbi, who said that geopolitics has changed at the world level, argued that "there will never be this solution utopianly dreamed of by the separatists and their Algerian mentor.
In this regard, he stressed the development at all levels, prosperity and progress of continental scope that are experiencing the southern provinces of the Kingdom, compared to an outdated discourse of the separatists who hold hostage for years a large population in the Tindouf camps.

Dahbi, who affirmed that the question of the Moroccan Sahara remains the cause of an entire people, said that Spain should show "state intelligence at the highest level" and build new relations with the South.
He regretted that the Spanish have neither vision nor will and lack "geopolitical intelligence", pointing out that Spain needs today to have good relations with Morocco, two countries so close and in a region threatened by all forms of crime (terrorism, drug trafficking human trafficking ...).
"Unfortunately, there is amateurism and lightness in the attitude of the government in Spain. A self-respecting state must speak before its public opinion to explain what has really happened clearly and unequivocally, and make those responsible assume their responsibilities," he added.
For Dahbi, Spain "should normally engage in an exchange with Morocco to first clarify the situation in all its details and to work out together a way out of the crisis. There is no agreement in the case of Brahim Ghali because it is a case before the Spanish justice system and of fairness to the victims.
"We need to have a serious exchange to establish a timetable to really talk about the future, cooperation and strategic partnership," he said.
Dahbi further noted that the Spanish should stop thinking about weighing the two southern neighbors. "Either they bet on the one that is winning the real battles and imposes itself as a serious ally that is developing, that has a project for the future, that helps them, that supports them and that has always reached out to them with so many sacrifices made, or they turn to a state overtaken by local and regional geopolitics," he said.
He also considered that a way out of the crisis is highly desirable for two friendly and allied countries at the service of their respective interests and peoples and that they have the opportunity to build today a true relationship for the future.
"There must be political will and courage in Spain to move forward together and enter into a dynamic of co-development," he concluded.