The former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, has maintained this Friday that she is "satisfied" with the file on the Gali case, but has regretted that with this judicial procedure she has "muddied" a "strictly humanitarian" decision, in relation to the stay of the Polisario Front leader Brahim Gali, who was treated at a Logroño hospital for coronavirus.

The Court of Zaragoza has ordered the file of the procedure that is followed in the Court of Instruction Number 7 of that locality against the former minister, seeing no evidence of a crime in her actions in the framework of the entry into Spain of the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, which took place on the night of April 18, 2021 and occurred without passing border controls or documentation in order to be transferred to a hospital in Logroño to be treated for Covid.

“I am glad, I am satisfied that the Zaragoza Court, on the first occasion it has had to rule on this matter, has confirmed this version against the criterion of the investigating judge,” the former minister transferred in an interview on Onda Cero, collected by Europe Press.

Laya has assured that this decision is "important" because it clarifies that Gali was treated for humanitarian reasons and in accordance with the law "thus concluding a case that should never have happened."

"Any public servant has to comply with the law," González Laya pointed out when asked if he would have informed the National Court of Gali's stay if he had known that the AN had open cases against the leader of the Polisario Front.

Of course, he has criticized that a political decision such as this was settled in court and even less in "criminal court" because, according to the former head of Spanish diplomacy, it should have been in parliament. Thus, she has shown her concern for the "judicialization of politics."

González Laya lamented that this so-called Gali case has served to "muddy" a decision that was "strictly humanitarian" and has highlighted that Spain has a "very clear" humanitarian tradition, as has been seen with the Ukrainian refugees or, previously, with Afghans and Sharauis.

“Defending the interests and values ​​of our country has always guided me in my work,” he pointed out, while emphasizing that in the exercise of his duties as minister he has sought to protect the image and international position of Spain .