Last Year’s Case Of Attack On Spanish Embassy Resumes

MEP: Spain’s National Court, resumed the complaint filed against the country’s ambassador in Kabul on charges of negligence and disregard for the security of Spanish police in the last year’s armed Taliban attack.

Spanish media have reported that the judge “Santiago Pedraz” In addition to research of “Emilio Perez de Agreda” Ambassador, decided to also investigate of “Oriol Sola” the embassy’s charge d’affaires for the attack.

Two Spanish policemen were killed in the attack, according to their families complain, judge accuses the ambassador for being offhand as he never paid attention to the recommendations and requests for embassy security enhancement that goes back to the time of its construction in 2008.

The plaintiffs claim that the security deficiencies reached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain, and the day when the bombing occurred, the French secret services had warned of the risk of an imminent attack.

The families of two killed police officers say that the warning of France should have led to extraordinary security measures to prevent the detonation of a car bombing in front of the embassy wall.

The complains by families of victims indicate that the facility Embassy with the control tower of straw, plastic windows and doors made of wood, not suitable for repelling the attack.

On December 11, 2015, the armed Taliban detonated a car bomb and stormed the Spanish embassy in the Shirpour district of Kabul—home to many foreign embassies and high-ranking government officials. Nine people died in the attack, including four Afghans, two Spanish guards and three Taliban fighters.