Recent official documents released by the Spanish government and the state’s official gazette have unveiled that a portion of the uniforms designated for the Spanish Civil Guard was manufactured in industrial facilities located in Morocco. This initiative is part of a contract established by the Ministry of the Interior with a Spanish company aimed at supplying new recruits with their official attire upon joining the service.
The contract in question pertains to file number A/0133/A/22/2, which was initiated by the Economic Affairs Department of the Civil Guard to provide clothing and related logistical services. This includes activities such as sizing, manufacturing, storage, transportation, and distribution, with the goal of delivering what the documents refer to as the "initial outfit" for the newly admitted Civil Guard recruits.
According to data from the Spanish official gazette, known as "BOE", the first tranche of the contract, allocated for the "general outfit of the recruits", was awarded on July 18, 2023, to Agrupación Europea de Industrias de Transformación S.L, a Madrid-based Spanish company. The value of the selected bid for this tranche amounted to €896,454, and the formalization of this tranche was published in the gazette on September 28, 2023. Subsequently, the execution of the manufacturing processes for the uniforms was outsourced to facilities in Morocco and Portugal.
The government document confirming that the manufacturing of the Spanish Civil Guard uniforms was conducted by companies in Morocco and Portugal has garnered attention. This revelation came in response to inquiries from representatives of the Popular Party, specifically Juan Diego Requena Ruiz, María Torres Teijada, and Ana Belén Vázquez Blanco, regarding the origins of the uniforms used by the Civil Guard recruits.
The Spanish government clarified that the components of the ceremonial attire worn by the 129th class of the Officers’ Academy and the 170th class of the Spanish Guard during their oath-taking ceremony were distributed among different tranches of the same contract. This information gains additional significance amid the rising discussions within Spain concerning the boycott of Moroccan products, illustrating that the industrial interconnection between the two nations extends beyond agricultural and food products, reaching directly into supply chains associated with Spanish state institutions and their security apparatus.
As reported by assahifa.com.
