The Spanish judiciary launched an investigation after video footage of police attacking women with Moroccan flags in Ceuta was released to celebrate Morocco’s advance to the World Cup semi-finals.
The video, which has gone viral on social media, sparked widespread outrage as it documented a moment in which women believed to be Moroccan were raped by police in the Spanish-administered city of Melilla in northern Morocco. On the other hand, local authorities in the city of Ceuta announced on Monday that they had opened a judicial investigation against about 60 security personnel from the city’s riot police amid unjustified violence, according to local newspapers. .
Lawyer Murad Al-Agoti confirmed that he had filed a complaint with Teresa Piramato Martin, the Spanish public prosecutor, regarding the attack on three Moroccan women with dual citizenship, accompanied by a minor, during their celebration of their Moroccan citizenship. collective where they were subjected to inhuman treatment.
He explained that the Spanish public prosecutor in charge of violence against women had forwarded the aforementioned complaint to the State Attorney General’s Office in order to open an investigation and activate legal proceedings against the security forces that appeared in the video footage of the attack on the Moroccan. women, according to the Hespress electronic newspaper. He pointed out that this attack took place despite the fact that the victims did not undertake any provocations against the Spanish police.
