MIGRATION CRISIS
He assures that he only asked for information on the specific measures that were being adopted by the government of the Canary Islands.
The prosecutor’s office denies Pressure was put on the NGO El Hierro for the reception of migrant minors and denies any requirement. This is why the Canarian government has classified “a before and an after”, which has sparked a debate on the competences of the State and the Autonomous Community, but the Public Ministry reduces it to the fact that it has only “requested information”.
He explained that no requirements have been issued by the prosecutor’s office of the NGO located in El Hierro to accommodate minors who arrived on August 29, 2024, but in the “normal exercise of its functions”, it requested “information on the specific measures that were being taken by”. the General Directorate of Child Protection of the Government of the Canary Islands, after being informed by the Provincial Brigade of Immigration and Borders that a boat with 15 unaccompanied minors had arrived in El Hierro and that the NGO responsible for the center for minors on the island of El Hierro told them that it was not possible You’re welcome.”
The police then informed the prosecutor’s office that they had contacted the General Directorate for Child Protection, which also informed them of their inability to take over reception of said minors.
As stated, the prosecution “requested only and exclusively information, without any request being addressed either to the NGO or to the General Directorate” although it “was also informed of the impossibility That said, the minors were transferred to the CATE in San Andrés “because it was” totally overwhelmed “and their separate reception from adult migrants could not be guaranteed.
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