The Home Office yesterday announced the transfer of the hitherto head of the Guardia Civil in the city of Ceuta, Lt. Col. Andres Lopez, who will now occupy the headquarters of the General Staff of the Zone Fourth Army, in Sevilla on secondment.
Lopez was the head of the troops of the Army, on 6 February, when 15 illegal immigrants drowned while trying to swim to reach the Spanish beach Tarajal. The day after the tragedy, the command of the Guardia Civil revealed his men threw balls at the SSA when they were in the water. In a report he wrote that “at any time by the staff of the body has made use of firearms, limiting the use of force, launching rubber bullets and cartridge use projection in times when immigrants swarmed over the fence to try to get in bulk and never directly towards them. ” The Director General of the Civil Guard declined during the early days launching balls, but then had to rectify before the images in which it looked like the agents made use of them to prevent immigrants reach Spanish soil.
The Home Office has defended the swashbuckling action of the Civil Guard was in accordance with the law and did not endanger the lives of immigrants. Also all the victims drowned in Moroccan waters. However, he has chosen to move to the head of the Guardia Civil in Ceuta when six months after the tragedy are met and announced in full summer period.
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