The Huelva fishing skipper held in Mauritania since July 14 accused of causing the death of four sailors from the African country due to a collision with their fishing boat has finally returned to Spain, as confirmed by the Osuna law firm .
As indicated by the office in a press release, this is how “the ordeal ends” of the Huelva fishing skipper, since there have been 45 days of “uncertainty and serious danger to his life”, since, as he has pointed out in several Sometimes his lawyer, the man from Huelva “feared for his physical integrity on a daily basis, given the insecurity and lack of rights in Mauritania.”
In this sense, the firm has explained that the boss “had to travel to the Sahara and from there to Casablanca, to catch a plane to Seville, all in 18 hours without a break.”
After that, the law firm has criticized “the behavior” of the Spanish diplomatic authority, which “has been called into question, as well as that of the company that owns the fishing boat.”
“The Mauritanian authorities allegedly accused him, and without any evidence, of the reckless homicide of four Mauritanians, but they never handed him a single judicial or police document, for this reason, he has found himself totally defenseless,” the firm has detailed.
For this reason, his lawyers have assured that the employer “categorically denies these four unfounded deaths” and “intends to request administrative responsibilities” from the Spanish State and the company that owns it for “malfunctioning.”
HELD SINCE JULY 14
The skipper of the ship had been held since July 14 in a coastal city in Mauritania, accused of causing the death of four sailors from the African country due to a collision with their fishing boat, something that his lawyer crossed out from the beginning. as “totally uncertain” alleging that he had “evidence” to “prove” his innocence, since “the more than 20 crew members maintain that there was no collision with that fishing boat.”
Regarding the reasons for his arrest, Osuna explained that, according to what he had been informed, “it seems that on some occasion they fake or simulate a collision that is not true” to “demand from the company compensation for the families of the victims”, so that if the ship’s company does not compensate “the skipper is detained there”, so “it is not the first time something like this has happened”.
Finally, he pointed out that the skipper from Huelva, who has “a lot of experience and hours of navigation”, works on a 50-meter-long fishing vessel, whose crew is made up of 26 members, belonging to different countries such as Morocco, Senegal and Mauritania.
