The Diplomat
The National High Court has declared “in accordance with the law” the decision of the Ministry of Justice to deny Spanish nationality to an employee of the Moroccan Consulate in Seville and resident in that city, on the basis of a report by the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) which states his “close collaboration with the Head of the Moroccan intelligence services stationed in Spain”.
Specifically, in a ruling issued on 14 September and reported by Europa Press, the Litigation Chamber of the National Court addresses an appeal by a man of Moroccan origin against a resolution issued in 2019 by the Ministry of Justice, denying him Spanish nationality for “reasons of public order or national interest”.
According to the Ministry of Justice, this man “has not justified the good civic conduct required by article 22.4 of the Civil Code, since according to the mandatory report in the file, the interested party does not accredit this requirement due to reasons of public order or national interest”, weighing “evidence of his close collaboration, since his arrival in 2016 at the Moroccan consulate in Madrid as a local agent, with the current head of the Moroccan Intelligence Services in Spain”.
The National Court indicates that “the content of the CNI report is sufficiently expressive. Through it, the CNI alludes to the plaintiff’s activities as a local agent of the Moroccan Intelligence Services”.
The CNI report, together with the rest of the file and the reasons offered by the Administration (…) clearly express the activity of the interested party that allows questioning the relevance of granting the request for nationality, for reasons of public order and national security”, affirms the National Court.
