The National Police's Information Commissioner's Office has identified two high-ranking officials of the Moroccan forces present on the day of the massive entry at the border with Morocco and has sent a report to Judge María Tardón, of the Audiencia Nacional, for her to assess their possible involvement in the deployed operation.
The agents point to Mohamed El Oualidi, head of the Tetouan Prefecture Police, and Abdel Fattah El Sayed, general supervisor in Fnideq, after examining five videos, selected from the 73 in their possession, recorded on July 30 and the following day and disseminated in Moroccan media and social networks.
According to this analysis, the presence of both in the area means that the "highest rank of the operational chain of command of the deployed security device" was there. The Police are now reviewing more material to ascertain the role played by these two high-ranking officials.
The videos place them next to the fence and in the vicinity of Tarajal
The report describes Abdel Fattah El Sayed wearing jeans, a dark polo shirt, black shoes, and a walkie-talkie in his right hand, while accompanying Mohamed El Oualidi on a tour of the vicinity of the Spanish-Moroccan border, in the opposite direction to the Tarajal crossing.
El Oualidi appears dressed in the uniform of the Moroccan General Directorate of National Security, with a navy blue suit jacket and a lighter blue stripe on the trousers. In a first video, 16 seconds long and published by the Moroccan media outlet Al Maghreb Press on Facebook, El Oualidi is seen giving directives to several immigrants, gesticulating with his right arm and pointing to where they should go. In the scene, a middle-aged man with a gray cap and a United Kingdom flag also approaches, as well as another male with a shaved head.
In the background, four DGSN agents also guide a group of women and minors. The recording ends with El Oualidi walking through the Bab Sebta border post, on the Moroccan side, whose administration corresponds to the Tetouan Prefecture.
The investigation contrasts the official staging and the real scope of the operation
A second video, disseminated by Haibapress, again shows El Oualidi, this time flanked by a man in a navy blue suit, open white shirt, glasses, and dark cap. Beside him walks Abdel Fattah El Sayed while talking on the phone. The local media captioned the sequence as the presence of the "Wali of security of Tetouan" and the head of the M'diq-Fnideq Security district at the scene to prevent the assault on the occupied city of Ceuta.
Another of the examined recordings, posted on social media the same day that some 80,000 people crossed into the autonomous city, shows one of the commanders next to the coast, talking on the phone. Also in the shot are eight riot police officers with tactical helmets and a blue police vehicle, with characteristics compatible with crowd control and public order.
Local media placed the intervention in an advanced phase of the day, when the deployed forces were trying to dissuade the crowd. In one of the analyzed sequences, a voice-over in Arabic is heard stating that the Wali of the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, the governor of M'diq-Fnideq, and the police prefect of Tetouan were at the scene to supervise the operation and restore order.
For now, the National Police continues to review the material to determine what specific role both commanders played during that operation and how far their intervention at the border went.
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