IU congressional spokesman Enrique Santiago on Friday expanded the complaint he filed with the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate two US ships loaded with military equipment for Israel to include another dozen ships that have scheduled stops in Algeciras (Cádiz) in the coming days. and weeks.
elDiario.es published on Thursday that 11 ships from the shipping company Maersk are likely to transport weapons to Israel from the United States, transiting through Algeciras between November this year and February 2025. As revealed by elDiario.es a few years ago days, between May and September This year, more than a thousand deliveries of military equipment intended for Israel passed through Algeciras, although in May the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José María Albares assured that Spain would not allow it. type of operations.
This Friday, Santiago and the lawyer and leader of IU Juan Moreno registered with the State Attorney General’s Office an extension of this complaint in which they warn of the arrival of thirteen new ships of the shipping company Maersk “with goods for military use intended for Israel”. The letter states that the ships depart from the port of Newark, New Jersey, and “plan to stop and refuel in Algeciras.”
Santiago and Moreno argue that “it seems reasonable to believe that we are faced with a rational and planned cooperation of the shipping company Maersk to provide weapons for the benefit of the State of Israel for the execution of a widespread attack or systematic against the Palestinians and Lebanese civilian population”, therefore requests that the “relevant investigative tasks” be opened “urgently” to clarify the company’s responsibility.
In addition, it calls for “taking appropriate legal actions to prevent” these ships from stopping in Algeciras, which they consider “committed behavior that contributes to the commission of serious crimes against the international community.”
IU leaders recall that “between May and September 2024, at least 25 maritime voyages from the United States with military goods stopped at the port of Algeciras, before continuing to Israel to deliver them.”
