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Parliamentary question | Spain is training Saudi soldiers to participate in the Yemen war | E-003546/2021 | European Parliament
Question for written answer E-003546/2021 to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Rule 138 Jordi Solé (Verts/ALE), Diana Riba i Giner (Verts/ALE), Alviina Alametsä (Verts/ALE), Ernest Urtasun (Verts/ALE), Mounir Satouri...
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Question for written answer E-003546/2021 to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Rule 138 Jordi Solé (Verts/ALE), Diana Riba i Giner (Verts/ALE), Alviina Alametsä (Verts/ALE), Ernest Urtasun (Verts/ALE), Mounir Satouri (Verts/ALE), Salima Yenbou (Verts/ALE), Katrin Langensiepen (Verts/ALE), Heidi Hautala (Verts/ALE) |
According to the newspaper elDiario.es(1), two Spanish private companies (Everis and NTGS) trained Saudi Arabian soldiers in a Spanish Army training camp in Zaragoza in 2018 and 2019. Once trained in the use of the weapons that these companies sold to the Ministry of Interior of Saudi Arabia, the soldiers, members of the Saudi Border Guard, were sent to the Yemen border to participate in a war that has already led to more than 233 000 deaths and ‘rampant levels of serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, many of which may amount to war crimes’, according to the UN(2)