The Constitutional Court has admitted this Monday for processing an appeal for protection against the file of the investigation into the death of 15 immigrants on the beach of the tarajal in 2014, who drowned when trying to enter Spain.
The appeal against the decision of the Court of Instruction number 6 of Ceuta was presented by the NGO Neighborhood Coordinating Association for the Monitoring of Minors and Youth. The Second Chamber of the TC considers that the matter has special constitutional importance and proposes that it be studied by the Plenary of the court. The magistrates have voted against the admission to process Enrique Arnaldo -which will issue a particular vote- and Cesar Tolosa.
The events took place on February 6, 2014, when, according to the court, there was “a massive attempt by an indeterminate number of immigrants (between 250 and 300) to access Spanish territory, [que] they tried to access the Spanish coasts in an avalanche and by swimming”. That day, the 23rd, they were returned to Moroccobut in the following days the corpses of drowned immigrants were appearing.
Interior acknowledged that riot control materials, such as rubber balls, had been used to discourage access. Fifteen civil guards came to be charged. After a first file revoked, the case was dismissed.
The court indicated in its second file resolution that “the corpses appeared without a float and with various items of clothing and the cause of death was suffocation by submersion, without any of them presenting injuries determining death”
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