Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at 16:02
Brussels – Too much is too much! It is the cry of despair of the European deputy Nicolas Bay vis-a-vis the inaction of Brussels in front of the continuation of the diversions of European humanitarian aid by the Polisario and Algeria.
“Why is Brussels refusing to investigate these acts despite the accumulating evidence? Why does the EU continue to send nearly 10 million euros per year in material to a camp of which it does not even know the real number of refugees? This money is that of the taxpayer of European countries: it is time to demand accountability from Brussels and Algeria! ”, Laments the French MEP in a press release made public on Wednesday.
The MEP recalls that in January 2015, a European Union report drawn up in 2007 by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) was finally published, “revealing a system of massive diversion of humanitarian aid orchestrated by the Polisario Front – an armed independence movement which claims part of the Moroccan Sahara – with the complicity of Algeria ”.
This damning report, adds the French MEP, indicated that “the real number of refugees in the Tindouf camps, controlled by the Polisario in western Algeria, was completely unknown: the authorities prohibit the EU from send a mission there to assess the situation. ”
The MEP recalls that a hearing in the European Parliament dating from July 2015 even revealed that “Algeria, which receives aid at the port of Oran, taxed 5% of the aid sent! “
Noting that this traffic continues actively to date and that “a large part of humanitarian aid would be sold each year in Mauritania to finance the Polisario and its operations against the territorial sovereignty of Morocco”, the MEP calls on Brussels to l action against this large-scale traffic.
The independent news site EUtoday.net published Tuesday new evidence of the continued diversion of humanitarian aid by the Polisario and Algeria despite the promises of the European Commission to end it.
This evidence was exposed in the light of investigations that the European site carried out on the ground and through overwhelming testimony.
They are corroborated by the multiplication of the incessant and desperate calls of Algeria in recent weeks to donors and humanitarian organizations, following the spread of the pandemic of the new coronavirus, to replenish the coffers of the Polisario and those of their intendants Algerians.
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