The former Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya will appear in person on Monday before the head of the investigating judge to testify in the case of the Polisario Front leader, Brahim Gali entering Spain in April.
Last week, the judge rejected a request by González to testify by videoconference in the case.
The judge has also summoned to testify as witnesses, in this case, the former head of Cabinet of the former vice president of the Government Carmen Calvo, Isabel Valldecabres Ortiz, current director-general of the Royal Mint of Spain.
The judge’s decision came after Camilo Villarino, chief of staff of the former Spanish Foreign Minister, admitted that Arancha Gonzalez Laya had ordered him to arrange the reception of Ibrahim Ghali, which caused the biggest diplomatic crisis between Spain and Morocco in recent decades.
Villarino was entrusted with the task of preparing the various logistical issues related to the reception of the leader of the “Polisario” Front, but he stressed that the decision was not only taken by Gonzalez Laya, but there are other parties that contributed to the matter, according to EFE.
Brahim Ghali arrived on April 18 in an Algerian plane at the Zaragoza Air Base, from where he left in an ambulance to the San Pedro de Logroño Hospital, and entered the health center under the name of Mohamed Benbatouche. On June 2, he left the country from Pamplona to Algeria, without presenting a passport or any other identification document.
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