The Danish police investigation into the fire at the headquarters of the Global Aktion association, based in Copenhagen, which occurred on Sunday January 12, is progressing. The suspect is a 19-year-old British national. He is presented as being a “member of a gang”, Danish media revealed this Friday. He is being held in custody for “serious arson”, adds the same source.
Global Aktion has not yet commented on these new elements of the investigation. Yesterday, the NGO sent a letter to the Minister of Justice to inquire about the progress of the Danish police investigations. The association expressed, in this text, its “astonishment that no member of the government has condemned the bomb attack against the premises of a legal political organization”.
The message written by the authors “was unequivocal and we consider it a clear attempt to put an end to our work in favor of human rights, freedom and against the brutal occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco” , underlined the NGO in its missive.
The media and representatives of the Polisario have not yet reacted to the arrest of the young British citizen. As a reminder, the Front had accused Morocco of being responsible for the fire at the headquarters of Global Aktion. Organs of the Algerian press repeated the same version without nuance.
-Polisario supporters in Denmark called, Wednesday evening during a sit-in in front of the NGO’s premises, for “the end of the occupation of Western Sahara.”
Global Aktion has taken issue with the Danish government’s support, approved last September, for the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara.
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