November 5, 2026

Fact

On 5 November El Español wrote that a report sent to Tardón identifies two Moroccan police commanders

On 5 November El Español wrote that the Comisaría General de Información sent Judge Tardón a report identifying two senior Moroccan police commanders in Fnideq-Castillejos on 30 July: Mohamed El Oualidi, police prefect of Tetuán, and Abdel Fattah El Sayed El Radi, general supervisor of M'diq-Fnideq. The text also writes Mohammed El Oualidi. One spelling is not chosen over the other. According to that piece, the report speaks of 73 videos and both appear in five of them. In one, El Oualidi appears “giving directions” and pointing the way. It is the description of a police report, according to El Español. It is not a judgment. On 6 November El Español added that Alassima Press, on 12 August, praised Mohamed El Oualidi for knowing “cuándo era mejor vigilar que intervenir”, and linked that handling to confidence from Abdellatif Hammouchi. What El Español attributes to Abdellatif Hammouchi and to Lieutenant Issou is not a judicial finding. On 6 November El Faro writes that the Police have analysed only 5 of the 73 videos and describes further recordings (HaibaPress, TanjaNews, and others). That analysed “5” is El Faro’s and is not the sentence in which El Español says both appear in five. El Faro speaks of “140 muertes” and of “más de 100.000”. “Más de 90.000”, “más de 80.000”, “más de 100.000” and those “140 muertes” are not merged with other entry or death figures in the archive. It remains a press account of a police report, not a judgment.

  • On 5 November El Español wrote that the Comisaría General de Información sent Judge María Tardón, of the Audiencia Nacional, a report identifying two senior Moroccan police commanders in Fnideq-Castillejos on 30 July. According to that piece, they are Mohamed El Oualidi, police prefect of the Tetuán region, and Abdel Fattah El Sayed El Radi, general supervisor of M'diq-Fnideq (Rincón-Castillejos). The text also writes Mohammed El Oualidi. One spelling is not chosen over the other. This is what the police report, according to El Español, sent the judge. It is not a judgment.
  • El Español, 5 November, María Peral: the Comisaría General de Información identified those two commanders in the Fnideq-Castillejos area on 30 July and sent the report to Tardón. According to the piece, both hold the direction and supervision of the actions of the DGSN and of the Moroccan Auxiliary Forces in that region.
  • El Español attributes to the report 73 videos of what happened on the Moroccan side. Both appear in five of them. The recordings are placed around the Bab Sebta crossing, in Fnideq, near El Tarajal.
  • On a 16-second video, published on 30 July at 23:09 (UTC+2) by Al Maghreb Press, El Español quotes the report: Mohammed El Oualidi appears “giving directions to several migrants, gesturing with his right arm and pointing the way they should go”. In the background, four individuals in DGSN uniform. Three give directions with their arms to a group of migrants (women and minors).
  • The report, according to El Español, places both “within the highest rank in the operational chain of command of the security deployment put in place by the Moroccan authorities”. The Police are still analysing the material.
  • El Español writes that El Sayed El Radi was identified as an “agente dinamizador” in a CENIF report previously published by the same paper. This is recorded only as what that outlet says.
  • The “about 80,000” in that piece are not merged with other entry figures in the archive.
  • It sits alongside the testimony before Tardón on 26 and 28 October (commanders and witnesses, not proven facts) and alongside the CENIF alert. This piece adds the names, the 73 videos and the report’s quotation on the directions. It does not replace that testimony.
  • El Español, 6 November: Alassima Press on 12 August praised Mohamed El Oualidi for knowing “cuándo era mejor vigilar que intervenir”, and linked that handling to confidence from Abdellatif Hammouchi. Hammouchi and Lieutenant Issou are attributions by El Español, not judicial findings. This sentence uses Mohamed El Oualidi, which is the spelling of that praise. It does not choose one spelling for the whole file.
  • El Faro, 6 November: “The Police have analysed only 5 of the 73 videos in their possession.” It describes further recordings (HaibaPress, TanjaNews, and others). That is El Faro’s detail. It does not replace El Español’s sentence of 5 November, according to which both appear in five videos.
  • In that piece El Faro writes “140 muertes” and “más de 100.000”. “Más de 90.000”, “más de 80.000” and “más de 100.000” are not merged with one another or with other entry figures in the archive. El Faro’s “140 muertes” are not merged with other death figures. The “about 80,000” in El Español’s piece of 5 November stay apart. The card remains press about a police report, not a verdict.