04/04/2009. The young Ouali The Ghadimi, 24, is one of nearly three hundred patients in the National Hospital of Paraplegics of Toledo, but his story is not a common history, but reflects the tragedy being experienced by the Saharawi people for over thirty years. EFE
Unlike most patients with spinal cord injury, a paraplegic does not originate in a traffic accident or occupational causes, but injuries, as he says, caused the Moroccan police during student protests in who threw herself from a third floor.
few facts that have been reported in various international human rights bodies and also to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
Ouali's story, which takes only a few days in the Hospital Paraplegic after several months of treatment in Córdoba, started May 2008 Alqadi Ayad University in Marrakech (Morocco) during the student protests calling for improvements in facilities and living conditions on campus, with the participation of young Sahrawi and Moroccan .
Those incidents, which resulted in two injured, police said, ended with a sentence of one year in jail for seven students for disturbing public order and attacks on officers during the demonstrations that the Moroccan authorities linked to a struggle between clans of the student movement.
According to the account provided to Reuters by the wounded, who attended third of Sociology, May 14 riot police entered the campus with their vans and faced the students.
Then, "Hundreds of police went to the rooms in the dorm and wiped out everything, beat and injured a bunch of students. It was a brutal and excessive intervention," said attacked with the help of a translator of Arabic Saharawi delegation Castilla-La Mancha.
Ouali, born in Aasa (southern Morocco), and a score of Saharawi civilians ran to the roof of the building for shelter, thinking there were going to be safe, but police chased them.
According to the account of Ouali, police began to arrive. "Twenty, thirty to forty and they started to beat and insult us by saying: Sahrawi, dogs, your end has come today is the day when all you're gonna die."
then cornered her-realize-and urged him "or I'll throw you strip or dog Sahara." Then he handed a heavy blow on his head and launched into space from a third floor, as long as your version.
adds that after losing consciousness and be dying for nearly three hours, police special security body was left lying with a blanket on the door of the University until an ambulance arrived to drive to Ibn Tufail Marrakesh hospital where he was diagnosed with a spinal cord injury and broken hand and foot.
After spending later by another health center in Casablanca, with the help of the Saharawi authorities and international solidarity, Ouali The Ghadimi was transferred to a rehabilitation center in Cordoba, where he remained for several months with the support of the Friends of Saharawi people of this Andalusian city, who won a visa to bring to Spain.
past few days remaining in the National Hospital for Paraplegics in Toledo following an agreement between the Health Service of Andalucia and Castilla-La Mancha, whose officials say they are "very grateful" to be in the national reference center, where is "in good hands."
And while you are away from family and friends, Ouali feel bathed in the heat and visits often make the dozen Saharawi living in the city of Toledo, English and supportive partnerships.
is optimistic about his recovery, because even though the rest of his life will be tied to a wheelchair, is regaining mobility in his hands, which now can not even say hello to those who visit.
EFE has sought the release of the Government of Morocco through its embassy in Spain, but has not yet received a response.
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