A pro-Saharan Catalan activist was expelled from Moroccan territory by Moroccan authorities. Western sahraEntering through the Mauritanian border, he put him in a car under police supervision and entered Morocco. Agadir.
about nuria bootsteacher and member of the association “Una finestra al món” (a window to the world in Catalan) entered Western Sahara on Monday the 13th from Mauritania, where she was traveling with a friend, she told EFE this Monday. .
“I had the opportunity to take a trip around. Mauritania and then across the border into Western Sahara. I’ve been working with him for eleven years. saharawi people and I was very excited because I had never set foot in the territory of Western Sahara. But I didn’t go for professional or journalistic purposes,” he explains by phone from the Canary Islands.
According to his account, Boot Entered through the Guerguerat border crossing, He went between Mauritania and the Sahara and from there to the city of Dakhla.
“We saw that we were there on the first day when we were in Dakhla. guarded by five men, then seven or eight. They followed our steps for 24 hours, they slept in front of our hotel,” says the activist.
They spent three nights in that town and took a taxi on Thursday, the 16th. Al Aayun, The capital of Western Sahara, but was stopped at a police checkpoint and taken out of the car.
“They put ten secret policemen who don’t speak Spanish, English or French in a small room, so they didn’t explain much to us, just they fired us and they took us to Agadir,” says Bota.
In a taxi and with a policeman in the car, they continued to that city in the south of Morocco, where they had arrived at two in the morning, and Then yesterday they boarded a plane that took them to the Canary Islands.
About the experience, Bota wonders “How scared (Moroccan authorities) must be that we might see what’s going on there”. “I didn’t go with a professional goal behind me, I just went to shake their hand and tell them we were with you in Catalonia and Spain,” he adds.
According to the activist, “they hide a lot of pressure and human rights violation“We must all remind the Spanish government that it is fully responsible for the deconolization of the region,” he explains.
He explains that the association Bota is a part of is working on education exchange projects with children from the Sahrawi refugee camps. Algeriawhere he travels every year.