The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall?

[Magda Hassan]

A royal pardon for a serial predatory paedophile who was found guilty of abusing 11 infants and children between the ages of 3 and 14.

And they're just the ones this scumbag spy was formally charged with.

Is anyone surprised?

Galván is an Iraqi from Basra and appears to have acquired his Spanish name from the secret service, along with a new identity as a retired professor of oceanography. He moved to Rabat eight years ago where he organised parties in his home for poor and vulnerable children whom he then abused and photographed.

A royal pardon for the sexual abuse of street children.

By: Imad Estito
Published Wednesday, August 7, 2013

The fiasco over the Moroccan royal pardon of a Spanish pedophile, who was serving a 30-year sentence for raping Moroccan children while filming them, continues to reverberate. Now, the king has decided to sacrifice a senior member of the old guard' of the Moroccan establishment, in a bid to contain public anger.
Rabat The Royal Palace in Morocco has been forced to issue three successive statements so far, in an attempt to appease the angry public after Spanish child rapist Daniel Galvan was released following a royal pardon of a number of Spanish prisoners in Morocco.
This incident has put King Mohammed VI in direct confrontation with the Moroccan street, perhaps for the first time in history, after which the Moroccan monarch found himself compelled to backtrack on his decision and revoke the pedophile's pardon.
The protests that ensued also prompted the king to sack the kingdom's prison chief Hafeez Benhashem. Benhashem rose to infamy under the late King Hassan II, during what was known as the "Years of Lead," a black phase in Morocco's history marked by state violence against political dissidents.
In the immediate aftermath of the controversy, King Mohammed VI declared that he had not been aware of the nature of Galvan's crimes. On the following day, the king announced he was exceptionally revoking his pardon of the Spanish national.
On Monday, August 5, the Royal Court issued a third statement explaining that investigations revealed the error to have taken place at the level of the High Commission of Penitentiaries and Prisons, which the statement said bore full responsibility for supplying the Royal Court with inaccurate information on the "criminal status of the person concerned." The Royal Court cleared Justice Minister Mustafa Ramid of all responsibility.
However, it seems that the Moroccan authorities have mixed up the two lists, and included all prisoners in the royal pardon.Commenting on the decision to dismiss him from his post, Hafeez Benhashem said, "The Royal Court's announcement is clear. The commission provided false information about the Spanish national Daniel to the Royal Court … it is the commission that made the mistake, not I. But at any rate, I take all responsibility. The information that was provided on Daniel, especially in terms of his charges and sentence, actually pertain to another Spanish prisoner. The mistake took place as a result of mistaken identity." Meanwhile, the Spanish authorities announced that, based on the Moroccan decision to revoke Galvan's pardon and the international warrant Rabat issued for his arrest via Interpol, Galvan was arrested in Murcia in southeastern Spain. Spanish judicial sources said that the convicted pedophile will be brought before Spain's top criminal court.
Since Monday, the Moroccan justice minister initiated contacts with his Spanish counterpart over implementing the decision to revoke Galvan's pardon as soon as possible. On Tuesday, two Moroccan judicial officials travelled to Madrid to discuss how to proceed next. According to Alberto Navarro, the Spanish ambassador to Morocco, Galvan will probably serve the remainder of his prison sentence in Spain, and would not be extradited to Morocco.
More details about the scandal that has rocked the Moroccan street have come to light after Spanish government sources said that Madrid had given Morocco two lists of convicts incarcerated in Moroccan prisons. The first list was enclosed with a request for amnesty for 18 prisoners, while the second requested that 33 others be transferred to Spain to complete their sentences there, including Galvan. However, it seems that the Moroccan authorities have mixed up the two lists, and included all prisoners in the royal pardon.
Some in the Moroccan press have suggested that a bid to settle scores between the king's entourage and the government may have been behind the incident. These same press sources said that the Spanish King Juan Carlos, during a visit to Morocco, had appealed to Moroccan Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane to deport a Spanish prisoner diagnosed with cancer to finish his sentence in Spain.
According to the sources, Benkirane subsequently conveyed this to the Moroccan king, who agreed to the request. However, Fouad Ali al-Himma, the king's adviser, contacted the Spanish ambassador and reproached him for not addressing the request to the Royal Palace instead of the government. Nevertheless, hearing that only the Moroccan king can fulfill the Spanish request, the ambassador used this to his country's advantage, and contacted the Spanish authorities to prepare lists of Spanish prisoners to be pardoned by the king.
This article is an edited translation from the Arabic Edition.
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