The commemoration of the second anniversary of the Melilla-Nador tragedy has rekindled the debate in Spain about the alleged responsibility of Rabat and Madrid for the deaths of around thirty migrants. The far-left Podemos party called on the European Commission to force the Spanish government to open a full investigation into the tragedy that occurred on June 24th, 2022. Podemos also backed the initiative of the pro-independence Catalan Republican Left to set up an independent commission of inquiry to shed full light on the tragedy, reports the Europa Press agency. In June 2022, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska had put the blame on migration «mafias» for the tragedy. For his part, in November 2022 in Madrid, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita described the tragedy as «an event that was not normal either in its origin or in the way it unfolded. It was not a spontaneous movement, it was something very violent, very new and planned». The Moroccan justice system has decided to close the investigation into the Melilla-Nador tragedy, due to the «absence of evidence of a crime».
