Saramo, Spain’s Isabel Serra and Portugal’s Catarina Martins argued they’d been on an “remark mission” to observe compliance with a current EU court docket ruling annulling the agriculture and fishing preparations between the EU and Morocco.
The MEPs had been touring in a private capability as their go to was not an official mission organized by The Left group or by the Parliament, two officers instructed POLITICO.
In an October 2024 ruling, the EU’s Courtroom of Justice sided with the Polisario Entrance of Western Sahara, which had appealed to have commerce offers annulled that allowed Morocco to export fish and farm merchandise from the annexed territory to the EU.
Morocco has lengthy claimed sovereignty over Western Sahara, a coastal territory in North Africa previously managed by Spain. However neighboring Algeria backs the Polisario Entrance as an alternative, a gaggle that for many years has fought for self-determination for the area.
“We’ve got good connection to the Polisario but additionally different NGOs that we had been really making an attempt to fulfill,” Saramo mentioned.
“Morocco doesn’t need us to see the human rights abuses they’re committing within the Western Sahara, which they illegally occupy,” he added in a put up on Instagram.
