Exceeding accusations that sow confusion about the ships with weapons that would dock in Cartagena. The government announced on Thursday that no ships will be transported Weapons aimed at Israel You can make a stopover in Spain. Until the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led by José Manuel Albares, declared that this would be the case, the accusations from the former government partner Podemos and the current government partner Sumar did not stop. Criticism to which are now added the reactions of the socialist flank, which do not fully clarify what happened.
In concrete terms, the events go back to Wednesday members of Sumar and Podemos were denounced that the ship 'Borkum', which was due to dock in Cartagena on Friday, was transporting weapons to Israel. “If it is loaded with tons of weapons for the genocide in Palestine, it cannot dock in Cartagena. “We have time to stop it,” Sumar spokesman Iñigo Errejón claimed. As published by ABC, the Ministry of Transport, led by Óscar Puente, confirmed that the port authority had authorized the arrival of this ship, owned by German shipowners and with flag of Antigua and Barbuda, after traveling through Gran Canaria with “all documentation in order.” The ship “is not going to Israel under any circumstances,” they pointed out.
However, yesterday Thursday, Podemos representative Javier Sánchez Serna went to the port of Cartagena to inspect the cargo ship's documentation. While he is giving a press conference, it is announced that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will not give permission for another ship. the 'Marianne Danica' of the Danish flag, to make a stopover in Spain. This is a second ship carrying the supply of engines for military missiles and which was destined directly for Israel. As soon as the bowl is vetoed, the 'Borkum' decides further to Sloveniato move your cargo to the Czech Republic.
Meanwhile, criticism from one side and the other has continued, adding to the confusion, leading to the mixing of names, nationalities and destinations of the ships. The second vice president of the government and number two of the PSOE, Mary Jesus Montero, has accused Podemos and Sumar of generating 'hoaxes'. “The ship that was going to Israel did not have permission. Everything else about the other ship is simply that they were wrong. What was reported yesterday was a hoax, as we have shown: it is a Danish ship, with a Danish flag, that went to the Czech Republic. “Today this ship decides not to make a stopover,” the finance minister said, mixing up the ships' nationalities. The Danish one is the one who went to Israel, the one who went on to the Czech Republic and the one who flies the flag of Antigua and Barbuda.
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Read what you wrote. And read what the article you linked says. Has nothing to do. Ridiculous. Anyway… https://t.co/N4bDrukGG1— Pere Rostoll (@prostoll) May 16, 2024
Transport has accused former Equality Minister Irene Montero of being 'ridiculous' after celebrating gunsmith 'Borkum' avoided entering the port of Cartagena. “We already know that there is a lot at stake in these European elections… But a lot. Read what you wrote. And read what the article you linked says. It has nothing to do with it,” he wrote in a message on his profile on the social network Director of transport communicationsPere Rostol.
The Podemos candidate for the 9J meeting had celebrated Borkum's abandonment of the stop in Cartagena. “Everything was so clear and we were inventing everything so much that… the 'Borkum' avoided the port of Cartagena,” he said in a message via his X profile. Stop criminalizing and ridiculing the Palestinian solidarity movement. “We act to stop the genocide,” he concluded.
Sumar's spokesperson, Iñigo Errejón, emphasizes that if the 'Borkum' “has nothing to hide, why does it finally decide at dawn not to dock in the port of Cartagena and continue on its route?” Accusations that have also maintained the former minister and general secretary of Podemos, Ione Belarra. “It has been shown that the Spanish government has lied,” Belarra emphasized during an interview on TVE, reported by Ep, as in her opinion the fact that the cargo ship finally decided not to call at the port of Cartagena shows that “The suspicions were more than reasonable.”