According to Suiteinformacion.es the Polisario allowed the kidnapping of a young girl in the Tindouf camp while she was visiting her family
The case of the young woman Filleh mint Chahid mint Laaroussia who was kidnapped in the refugee camps of Tindouf, in southern Algeria, and taken to the city of Oran has exploded in the Spanish media. The case arrived in Spain after the woman contacted “Butincon”, a Spanish food delivery company. She the girl had asked to be accompanied to the Tindouf camps, where she was held by the host family. Since then her documents have been burned and she is being held against her will.
This despite the fact that Filleh’s Spanish family had paid the safe conduct that allowed a Saharawi to go to Algeria, for a value of 2,500 euros, specifying that the kidnapping was possible by taking advantage of the fact that Filleh, just an adult, 18 years old in Spain, was at a wedding. She was taken to Oran, where she is currently waiting for the arrival of a Spanish lawyer to request her return to Spain”. According to the Spanish media, this case demonstrates the climate of repression experienced in the Tindouf camps.
The Polisario and some members of the girl’s tribe, a relative of Jira Bulahi, threatened Buticon’s associates, Louali Salem Douh and Hammada Saleh Moulud, to kill their family in the camps in retaliation for having participated in the escape of some women from the camps. People from precarious situations in Tindouf. In recent months, several reports from various institutions, including the European Parliament, have collected complaints from Sahrawis regarding their living conditions, the lack of freedom of movement, expression and assembly, as well as the shortage of food, water, medicine, petrol , among other products essential for a dignified life.
In August, the first secretary of the Saharawi Peace Movement (MSP), Hach Ahmed Baricalla, reportedly sent a letter to Staffan de Mistura, personal representative of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, denouncing the deteriorating conditions of life of the Sahrawis in the Tindouf fields.
