MADRID The Spanish court issued an arrest warrant against a Moroccan official, considering that should be tried for his alleged participation in a “genocide” in Western Sahara from 1975 to 1991, along with 11 other defendants compatriots in April.
Judge Jose de la Mata, from the Audiencia Nacional (Spanish main criminal court) considered that Lehsan Chaf Yeudan has to be tried for involvement in torture in the former colony Spanish after Morocco’s annexation, AFP noted.
In his writ, dated Friday, the judge said there is enough evidence to say that Yeudan “met and [...] participated directly and personally, with acts constituting torture, the overall plan designed and implemented systematically [...] to destroy the Saharawis “.
The jailer Smara detention center was charged with” participation in a crime of genocide “of 1975-1991 through a” crime torture “as long as the car.
Yeudan is accused of torturing Brahim Salem Mohammed Omar, transferred to Smara following his arrest on January 17, 1977.
The Prisoner “He was tortured personally by Colonel Lamarti by Moulay Ahmed Albourkadi (Lieutenant of the Royal Gendarmerie) and Lehsan Chaf Yeudan (duty officer of the barracks),” the text.
“The colonel ordered he tied the extremities of the body with ropes and the separated “,” I also applied electric shocks to her cheeks and tongue “and was” beaten with ropes “in a cell, where he stayed two months and 13 days.
Meanwhile, some of the other 72 prisoners were also tortured, the judge said, citing the case of a woman who gave birth in prison and whose captors cut off the fingers of her baby and they put it in the food.
On April 9, another judge of the High Court ordered the prosecution of 11 officials, Moroccan military and police officers for crimes of genocide in Western Sahara during the same period.
Morocco said have a “clear conscience” and denounced the interest of some in trying to “undermine” the relationship between the two countries.
The Western Sahara was a Spanish colony until 1975, when Morocco annexed the territory, whose independence He claims the Polisario Front, which is backed by Algeria.
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