The Diplomat
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court has opened a “pre-trial investigation” into the murder last Friday of three Spaniards in the city of Bamiyan (Afghanistan), in an attack in which another was seriously injured.
According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court in a note, “among the fatal victims of the attack were a man and two women of Spanish nationality, R.B.R. born in Girona, S.V.B. born in Figueres (Girona) and E.S.V. born in Barcelona”.
The note indicates that “taking into account the power attributed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office to investigate on a preliminary basis the commission of acts that could constitute a crime and there being indications that the acts could be considered a crime of terrorism, the objective competence for their investigation corresponds to the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has mobilised a group of diplomats from Pakistan and Qatar – the country where the Spanish ambassador to Afghanistan resides for security reasons – to the Afghan capital to attend to the victims of the attack.
Ministry sources said that the priority will be to immediately attend to the victims and the rest of those affected, in addition to initiating procedures for the repatriation of the bodies and the transfer of the injured person to Spain as soon as his medical circumstances allow.
Two other Spaniards who were travelling in the same group as the dead and who were unharmed after the attack told Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares in a telephone conversation that they were well in the capital and expected to be able to leave the country in the next few hours.
