Mallorcan Reyes Rigo reaches an agreement with the Israeli Prosecutor's Office to be deported to Spain.

PalmThe Mallorcan activist Reyes Rigo has reached an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office of the Negev region to be deported to Spain. This was communicated by the Spanish consulate to Rigo's brother this Friday, explained the Unides Podem councilor at Palma City Hall, Lucía Muñoz, who traveled to the Flotilla with the activist detained in Israel.

Rigo's family is now waiting to contact her lawyer and pay the fine, which would amount to just over 2,500 euros, so that the activist can be deported to Spain.

Initially, the Prosecutor's Office of the Negev region has filed charges against the Mallorcan activist Reyes Rigo, arrested on October 1 while traveling aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla with aid for Loop, and has requested that he be remanded in custody, the Israeli Police reported on Friday.

"The Negev Prosecutor's Office filed an indictment and a request for pretrial detention against a Spanish citizen this Friday morning for assaulting a guard at the Ketziot prison," the police said in a statement Friday. Rigo is the only one of the 49 Spaniards who were on this first flotilla who remains in Israeli custody..

Specifically, according to police, he is accused of refusing to enter a cell and attacking a female guard at Keziot prison by biting her hand, causing injuries. The incident reportedly occurred last Sunday.

"The Israeli Police will take strong action against any attempt to damage government symbols and public officials, and will bring those involved to justice," the statement added.

According to the Israeli mediamako.co.il, during the interrogation Rigo stated: "The guards attacked me. I defended myself. They beat me. They dragged me with force. I had no other choice."

Rigo's detention in Israel had been extended by the court in Beersheba until this Friday, so it is not clear whether, following this request for preventive detention, she will be released or not.

On the other hand, in the next few hours some of the eight Spaniards who were traveling aboard the second flotilla that was intercepted by Israel in international waters early Wednesday morning could be released and expelled from Israel, according to Rumbo a Gaza, one of the organizers of the initiative.

Lucía Muñoz will donate her salary to help pay the fine

Podemos councilor at Palma City Council, Lucía Muñoz, has announced that she will offer this month's salary to pay the fine imposed on Reyes Rigo. After learning of her release, Muñoz stated that she is experiencing a mixture of relief and deep indignation. In this regard, they explained in a statement that "Reyes Rigo was forced to plead guilty to unjust accusations" and stated that until they know she has left Israel, "we will not be at peace."

For its part, the Global Movement in Gaza Mallorca celebrated the "foreseeable" return to Spain this Saturday of activist Reyes Rigo, the only Spanish member of the Global Sumud Flotilla in Israeli custody after her arrest on October 1. In a statement, the organization noted that Rigo's family and friends have spent "a few days of great anguish" and emphasized that they are "very happy" with the news of her return.

"We are very excited to be able to hug her and hear her tell us firsthand everything she has been through and experienced these past few days," they noted, adding that they would prefer for her to be the one to recount "her odyssey" when she returns and not get an idea from what the published have published.