The Government has denied a stopover permit in Spain to a ship loaded with explosives from India and bound for Israel in the midst of a controversy with Sumar over the cargo ship’s stop in Cartagena (Region of Murcia). Borkum which, according to pro-Palestinian associations, transports military material for the Israeli Army but which, according to the Government, carries a shipment for the Czech Ministry of Defense. The vessel that has been denied a stopover is different from the one reported by Sumar and Podemos: it is the Marianne Danica, a Danish-flagged ship that set sail from Madras (India) bound for the port of Haifa (Israel). It is the first time that the Government has denied authorization to stop over a ship with weapons for Israel, as stressed in Brussels by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares.
Same as him Borkumhe Marianne Danica requested two permits to transit through Spanish waters and a stopover in the port of Cartagena, but not this Friday, but next Tuesday, May 21. The ship, which is transporting explosive material, carries a load of 26.8 tons. The sender of the merchandise is the Indian company Siddharta Logistics Co and its recipient is the company Israel Cargo Logistics (ICL). The sources consulted do not rule out that the complaints against Borkum respond to the fact that one ship has been confused with another.
The parliamentary group of Sumar, a minority partner of the Government, has presented this Thursday to the State Attorney General’s Office a complaint in which it requests the blockade of the cargo ship Borkum, and specifically the “military material destined for Israel that is deposited in its holds or deck,” according to the document to which EL PAÍS has accessed. Sumar also demands that the Public Ministry adopt executive precautionary measures before the relevant courts of justice, both the National Court and the International Court of Justice (ICJ), with the aim of complying with the orders issued in January and March by the ICJ. that prohibit any action that could constitute the crime of genocide in Gaza. The Delàs Center for Peace Studies, based in Girona, has also requested that the ship be inspected to verify that its cargo and destination coincide with what was declared by the carrier.
The socialist part of the Government has denied that the weapons carried by that ship are destined for Israel, despite which those responsible for Sumar have continued with their complaint, which they assure is supported by information and documentation from which they have been ” knowledgeable”, and who maintain that the ship “is transporting a shipment of weapons for Israel” whose final destination is the Israeli port of Ashdod. They have stressed that it is “a city just 25 kilometers from Gaza, where the international community is aware of activities by the State of Israel that qualify as genocide against the Palestinian people,” adds the text presented, which is abundant: “According to the codes identification of each container [contenedor] specified in the documentation [que se adjunta a la denuncia]this ship carries 20 tons of rocket motors (UN code class 1.3C 186), 12.5 tons of rockets with explosive charge (code 181), 1,500 kilograms of explosive substances (UN code class 477) and 740 kilograms of charges, cannon propellants (UN code class 242)”.
Podemos has also mobilized against the docking of the ship, which this Thursday is already off the coast of Cartagena. Ione Belarra’s party has filed a complaint in the National Court, which has informed the Prosecutor’s Office to rule. The public ministry responded this Thursday by reporting against the admission of this complaint for processing, considering that Podemos does not provide “reliable documentation” or “rational evidence of substantiated criminality,” reports JJ Galvez. It is expected that, during its stopover in Cartagena, the Borkum disembark part of its cargo, destined for the Granada Munitions Factory, property of the Slovak firm MSM, according to sources familiar with the operation.
Belarra has announced on social networks that the Podemos deputy Javier Sánchez Serna will visit the facilities of the port of Cartagena this afternoon “to check, first-hand, the situation of the ship Borkum, suspected of bringing weapons to Israel for genocide.” The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, responded to Belarra: “Well, you will waste time, because the ship does not dock in Cartagena until 7 AM tomorrow. But anyway, there you go. We have already provided complete transparency with the data on the ship’s cargo and its final destination. Our port professionals ensure compliance with regulations without the need for any exercise in populism. Thank you”. The general secretary of Podemos has insisted: “The Czech Republic is one of the largest sellers of weapons to Israel. It is evident that this is an intermediate stop and that the shipment will arrive in Israel for the genocide of the Palestinian people.”
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Well, you’re going to waste your time, because the ship doesn’t dock in Cartagena until 7 am tomorrow. But anyway, there you go. We have already provided complete transparency with the data on the ship’s cargo and its final destination. Our port professionals ensure compliance… https://t.co/aU73vBbCUt
— Oscar Puente (@oscar_puente_) May 16, 2024
He Borkum It is a ship from the Indian city of Madras and carries weapons of war, as EL PAÍS has been able to verify with documents. A group of pro-Palestinian associations, the Solidarity Network against the Palestinian Occupation, maintains that the destination of these weapons is Israel and asks the Spanish Government to prevent it from setting sail for that country when it stops in Cartagena. But the Executive has responded that the information is “false” and that its destination is actually to the Czech Republic.
Minister Puente confirmed this on Wednesday by showing on the social network X the transit authorization of the ship, where the Czech Republic appears as the final destination. EL PAÍS has also had access to the certificate issued by the Czech Government, which states that these weapons will be used “solely for security tasks in the Czech Republic.”
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