The Public Prosecutor’s Office informs the Government of the Canary Islands: You could be committing the crime of child abandonment if you stop taking in more menas (acronym for unaccompanied foreign minors).
The chief prosecutor of the Canary Islands, María Farnés Martínez Frigola, issued a decree on Friday in which she orders the prosecutors of that community to open an investigation into this alleged crime if they are informed of the refusal of the General Directorate of Child Protection and Adolescence of the island’s Executive “to accommodate an unaccompanied foreign minor in a protection center of the autonomous community”, provided that this has been “duly examined” as established in the 2014 Framework Protocol on the matter.
This Thursday, the government of the Canary Islands, chaired by Fernando Clavijohas published its new regulations on the reception of menas. This text envisages certain differences with the provisions of the 2014 Framework Protocol.
Concretely, it establishes a series of procedures before receiving the oreas “his police identification report”, an administrative decision which, individually, assigns him to a state agency or gives him an interview, accompanied by an interpreter and a prosecutor.
However, in the aforementioned decree, the Attorney General of the Canary Islands orders the rest of the members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Islands, if they are informed of the refusal of the Canary Islands administration, to immediately receive a ore which has been “duly revised” as indicated in the 2014 framework protocol, send a letter “requesting that the necessary measures be adopted so that the said minors are immediately received” in a protection centre.
The recipients of this order are the prosecutors who are on duty, upon the arrival of a cayuco with minors, in the Minors Section or in the Trafficking and Immigration Sections.
They are also responsible for the state security forces and agencies that transmit to the prosecutor delegated to human trafficking and immigration a “detailed report on the particular personal situation of the unaccompanied foreign minor”, as well as on the conditions of his arrival. Data such as: your health statusif you are part of a family unit, If a parent accompanies you in the canoethe number of adults travelling on board the ship, the accumulated days of navigation, whether a death occurred during the voyage…
