At least 2,810 migrants reached the coasts of the Canary Islands aboard about fifty boats last week, from September 16 to 22, most of them Lanzarote And The ironincluding approximately 420 minors.
On Monday, the quietest day, a canoe arrived in El Hierro with 67 people, but on Tuesday there were 182, Wednesday 833, Thursday 452, Friday 496, Saturday 328 and this Sunday. 452 people were counted in six boats, which totals a total of 780 this weekend, according to the provisional count carried out by Eph.
Migrants who arrived this Sunday reported having carried out a seven day trip from the port of Mbour, Senegal. People from Guinea-Conakry, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal and Gambia were traveling on board the pirogue.
Among the accompanied migrants, of sub-Saharan and Maghreb origin, there are also 212 womenas indicated by a Red Cross report.
Although some transfers to health centres were necessary for various pathologies, no reports were made. no serious cases or deaths these days, where landings have taken place on six of the seven main islands, all except La Palma.
Overflow in the Canary Islands
It has been an eventful week for Salvamento Martímo, especially on Wednesday, September 18, when fourteen ships and 833 people rescued in one day.
Lanzarote was the island where more arrivals have occurred, both on boats and on people, with 1,010 migrants in 18 boats, many of them inflatable.
The island has reached a saturation point in terms of migrant care, so the occupants of three of the nearby boats have been landed in Fuerteventurawhere 227 people were counted throughout the week during four rescues.
The second largest island in terms of the number of migrants was El Hierro, with 952 people distributed in eleven cayucosamong them 209 minors registered by the Red Cross.
Resources for the care of unaccompanied migrant minors in El Hierro They are already saturatedwhich led the autonomous community to make transfers to other islands.
After Lanzarote and El Hierro, it is the island of tenerife where the largest number of migrants arrived, 291 people in five boats according to the provisional and unofficial count carried out by the EFE Agency.
They arrived in Gran Canaria either by their own means or were rescued. 122 people in two boats, although a rescue is currently underway, as well as another in waters near Fuerteventura.
At La Gomera Island Only one boat arrived this week with 56 people.
Protocol for migrant children
The situation of unaccompanied migrant boys and girls cared for by the Canary Islands government, about 5,500will be the subject of negotiations again this week between the Spanish government and the PP, after the Congress I will reject in July with the votes of the popular group (and Junts and Vox) its distribution by other autonomous communities, since the Autonomy status of the Canary Islands gives exclusive competence to the community in matters of protection of minors.
All this also happened after the judicial paralysis of the care protocol dictated by the regional executive, composed of CC and PP, considering that it can be constitutive of a serious violation of children’s fundamental rights.
