Spain Arrests Paedophile Freed by Morocco

{{Police have arrested a Spanish paedophile who had his pardon revoked by Morocco’s King Mohamed VI after it sparked protests in the north African country, the interior ministry in Madrid said.}}

Daniel Galvan, who was convicted of raping 11 children aged between four and 15 and sentenced in September 2011 to 30 years in prison in Morocco, was detained in Murcia in southeastern Spain, an interior ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by media.

Galvan, who once worked at the University of Murcia, will be taken to Madrid “in the coming hours” where he will be brought before Spain’s top criminal court, the National Audience, which will decide his fate, the spokesman added.

Earlier on Monday, King Mohamed sacked the country’s prison chief after an inquiry blamed his department for Galvan’s release.

“The inquiry concluded that the said administration inadvertently provided erroneous information about the criminal record of the prisoner in question when requested by the royal court,” a palace statement said on Monday.

{Aljazeera}