El Aaiun (Occupied Territories), November 3, 2011 (SPS) - The European parliamentarian Willy Meyer of Spain was beaten and pushed by Moroccan police Sunday when they banished him from the airport in the Western Sahara capital of El Aaiun.
He was on his way to Western Sahara to investigate the human rights situation in the capital El Aaiun and those of Morocco, the occupied territories of Western Sahara. Moroccan police met him on the stairs of the plane where they forbade him entrance into the country. In opposition, he sat down passively resisting their orders, where the police beat and push him.
Willy Meyer fell finally to the ground where he struck his neck and his wrists, reported the Spanish newspaper El Mundo Monday.
"I feel I have fallen off a horse. If this is what they do against an MP, imagine what they are doing to the Saharawi people," he told El Mundo.
After the episode, Willy Meyer flew back to Gran Canaria where he came from. There he stated that he would lodge a complaint with the Spanish foreign ministry and try to get Morocco to a Spanish court for police violence at the airport. (SPS)
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