Jesus Lorenzo Aguilar, mediator and lawyer, director of the restorative justice program of the Spanish Mediation Association (Asemed), warned against the immigration which we are attending an absolutely crucial debate for the social peace that Spain needs for the development of the interests of citizens, both in the social, political, labor and economic fields. Thus, he assured that “it is a continuous and multifaceted conflict that affects all Spanish citizens, since the way of interpreting it depends on the ideology or sensitivity of each one, and also on what comes from his heart or the interests that he defends. him.”
But despite the different ideological positions, it is true that currently no one disputes that foreigners who come to our country are necessary, “in many cases well received and I think, in most cases, highly valued, when those who integrate into our society They come to carry out tasks essential to the development of our economy” he stressed.
“And we almost all assume that all migrants, mainly Latinos, Africans and Asians, come to our country to enjoy better living conditions than those offered by their country. And this, it must be recognized, represents a renunciation of the model of life on the land that saw them born, as well as their family and friends, which is also a great personal effort that we must take into account.
The Asemed mediator also wanted to say that due to the fact that Europe opened its borders for humanitarian reasons In addition to the tens of thousands of people from the Middle East, whose societies are immersed in serious armed conflicts, there has been an immense migration of citizens from these countries to ours, although they maintain different values and beliefs that, in many cases. The conflict that we have been maintaining for centuries “has led many European citizens to criticize these migratory flows, considering them an element of distortion and conflict that harms our European societies.”
Specifically, “I am referring to the reflections of certain media close to nationalist political movements about the latest attack in Germany, where a refugee of Syrian origin committed several murders, probably because He was a jihadist infiltrated among the thousands of good people and the workers who arrived in this country fleeing the war that was ravaging the land where they were born.
However, this lawyer warns that all this poses a serious problem of conscience for many European citizens who see how Europe welcomes these immigrants to offer them refuge and support, so that they can rebuild their lives and, in return, “one of their own pays for this act of compassion.” cruelly murdering three people and seriously injuring eight others.
“Clearly, this attack produces a common feeling of frustration among citizens, which is often channelled by political interests, so that a desire for revenge arises against the person responsible for such an execrable act, which is also transmitted to the entire group in which the murderer belongs, making all members of the Muslim community responsible, which is clearly unjust,” says Lorenzo.
Social tensions
In our country, unfortunately, we have had several similar experiences, he emphasizes, such as the attacks against 11M or the attacks on the Ramblas in Barcelona“, ” which I had the displeasure of witnessing practically live, but, despite the social tensions that these events have produced in our society, we have been able to overcome them thanks to the understanding and sensitivity that the vast majority of Muslim migrants have had in condemning the events and its perpetrators, many of its leaders actively collaborate with the forces and security bodies of the State to clarify such events and condemn the perpetrators. Among others, there is Aguilar recalls Moneir Mahmoud Aly El Messerywho was Imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of Madrid for fourteen years, as well as president of the Spanish Federation of Islamic Religious Entities (FEERI) at the time of the Madrid attack, “with whom I had the pleasure of speaking on several occasions and who showed himself to be a clear opponent of the jihadist movement, denouncing its sympathisers and even preventing them from accessing the mosque, denying that these terrorists are good Muslims.
Today, the number of people arriving in our country in an uncontrolled manner is so high that the management of their housing is already causing serious social conflict due to the lack of collaboration between the different state administrations, whose disagreement has even led to “one of the two main political parties that have governed clashing” various ACCA coalitionsbreaking their pacts and agreements, leading to the resignation or dismissal of many senior officials of the autonomous administrations governed by the PP with the support of VOX.
On the other hand, it explains how difficult it is to manage the social inclusion of these millions of migrants who have arrived in Spain in recent years and who live together and interact with each other, generally because of their origin, nationality, religion or interests, grouping together in differentiated communities each other that are led by their more or less formal leaders, and even, in many cases, clandestine, “especially in the social groups in which the culture of gangs and other illegal organizations has been transferred to our country,” defines Aguilar.
“You only have to walk the streets of the main Spanish cities that benefit from this migration to realize that this phenomenon will continue to grow in the years to come, to the point of blurring the sociological and demographic profile of the population. our traditional societychanging it radically.
police work
And this is the current reality “to which we must seek solutions to minimize the risks, threats and conflicts that arise daily.” But what can we do to ensure that the people we have welcomed into our country work, prosper and integrate and also help us prevent some of their own from attacking our social system? “Honestly, I know that the State security forces and organs “They are working tirelessly to discover the needle that represents this minority of immigrant criminals who are hiding in the enormous social migratory haystack that Spain has become, but I also know that this police work is insufficient.”
Thus, Jeús Lorenzo explains that, through his work in the mediation service we offer in Spanish prisons “I have met foreign prisoners who are serving sentences for generally very serious crimes, who, instead of repenting, proudly demonstrate the power of the group to which they belong to commit multiple criminal acts and feel a certain sense of impunity when they are convinced that they are invisible to the eyes of native Spaniards, because they think they are playing in another league, that of the lower depths of society. And it is the leaders of these minority social groups who manage these illegal businesses, their identity being unknown even to the police.”
“And I’m not just talking about poor migrants who came to our country in search of a better life,” he says, but also, he says, “those who arrived as tourists in search of sun and beach, and then settle down permanently.” and create a branch.” of their international criminal organizations.
However, “the majority of citizens belonging to these groups social minority “They know perfectly well what types of crimes are committed by the group they are part of and, more importantly, many of them know who are those who disturb social peace through crime.”
But, due to a misunderstood group solidarity (so as not to be accused of being a traitor or a snitch), No one gives information about their criminal compatriots, among other things because they also fear the reprisals they could suffer if they informed the authorities of these criminal acts and those responsible.
Precedents on the international scene
In the European Union, there are precedents at international level with the development of programmes funded in the countries of origin of migrants, such as Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Dominican Republic, who seek a comprehensive approach to contribute to the efforts of Member States to alert, prevent and reduce crimes related to irregular migration, taking into account the impact that such migratory flows can generate on public security. “These challenges involve reflecting on irregular flows of migrants and the emergence of other crimes that include, but are not limited to, trafficking in human beings, sexual exploitation, falsification of documents and even trafficking in arms and illicit substances, in order to achieve different objectives.”
The prevention of this “planned crime”, understood as that which, although affects the society in which it occursdoes not necessarily have its origin in its territorial extent nor does it deploy all its effects or consequences there and may have an idealistic or materialistic motivation, having a normally organized character and which may consist “in the commission of so-called planned crimes as opposed to on occasion, I have not found, with regard to Spain, other projects than those that refer to organized crime by international criminals, which is envisaged in the National Strategy against Organized Crime and Serious Delinquency or in the Anti-terrorism prevention, protection and response planboth from the Interior, and which are of a police nature,” explains Aguilar.
Thus, the mediator explains that, for all of the above, “it is necessary that we organize ourselves institutionally so that the arrival of a greater number of individuals in our territory does not generate more perverse effects than any of us wants, preventing new attacks such as the one that has been reproduced in Spain and produced in Spain. Germany, a few days ago, and, to prevent them, in addition to police action, institutionalized dialogue mechanisms are also implemented through citizen councils that work alongside resident minorities to improve coexistence and provide an advanced response to possible risks that their elements may generate, with the participation of social leaders from different minority groups that result in security and improvement of the welfare state,” concludes jurist Jesús Aguilar.
