Spanish justice has launched an international arrest warrant against three Moroccan soldiers accused of killing two young Spaniards in Moroccan waters off the Spanish enclave of Melilla in 2013, AFP learned on Friday September 25 from a judicial source. .
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Aged 19 and 24, Mohamed Amin Mohamed Dris and Abdeslam Ahmed Ali, Spaniards from Melilla, were sailing in a zodiac in northwest Morocco when they "
died as a result of the gunfire
" fired by this patrol of the Moroccan Navy on October 27, 2013, indicates the National Court of Audience in a document consulted by AFP.
Warning shots
A report from the Moroccan gendarmerie, attached to the document from the National Hearing, indicates that these two young people "
were on board a suspicious fast inflatable boat, equipped with an engine
" and "
refused to comply and took the escape
”after“
warning shots
”.
According to the National Hearing, it turned out to be impossible to hear the accused soldiers "
as suspects
".
Indeed, the Moroccan authorities refused a request for a rogatory commission in 2016 considering that it could “
prejudice its sovereignty, its security and its public order
”, recalls the Spanish court, which adds that Morocco has also classified a procedure without continuation at the end of 2014. The report of the Moroccan gendarmerie specifies that this patrol “
carried out a routine surveillance intended for the fight against illegal immigration and international drug trafficking
”.
