Supreme Court juvenile prosecutor Teresa Gisbert criticized the fact that boys and girls who, after spending 6 days in a canoe on the high seas, sleep on stretchers of a Temporary Reception Center (CATE), something which “cannot be” and for which he asked the management for speed.
“There were three children, because they were children, on stretchers, exhausted, after six days in a canoe” at CATE, and that “cannot be”, because “you had to see them“and celebrated that this case “has been resolved” and that more modern management will be applied with more diligence even within the framework of the exceptional character.”
They marked “lines” so that certain situations would not happen again, and she admitted that “she was worried” but “we are acting well”, given the circumstances.
In this sense, he stressed that “there was an “agreement” so that “this does not happen again” and that the minors who are in the CATE can be immediately made available to their corresponding center. “Everything has a possibility solution If we do it in the most operational and rapid way possible, said Gisbert, who insisted that, despite the saturation situation, “we have made a lot of progress and we are on the right track.”
The prosecution welcomed the substantial improvement for the care of unaccompanied migrant boys and girls who arrived on the island of El Hierro and appealed for the “indispensable” solidarity of the rest of the autonomous communities to proceed with their reception. “It’s not a Canary Islands problem; “It’s a societal problem and it concerns us all.”
Teresa Gisbert met this Monday in El Hierro with the top prosecutor of the Canary Islands, María Farnés Martínez, and the social advisor of the Government of the Canary Islands, Candelaria Delgado. Teresa Gisbert admitted that although there was “discussions » In some situations, the reality is that “things are getting better” and “they are going in the right direction.”
The prosecution has been alerting for 7 years
For her part, the main prosecutor of the Canary Islands, María Farnés Martínez, assured that “there is a very serious scenario” and agreed on the improvement of management, mainly with the examination of migrants “to avoid any confusion and ensure greater security. . “.
The prosecutor considers settled the controversy over the protocol for the care of migrant minors published by the Government of the Canary Islands and stressed that after the meeting held this morning ““this will be resolved”. This protocol “is not a legal question, it is a question which will be resolved by the courts following a small malfunction which is not attributable to anyone, but to the situation”, he said. specified.
As he recalled, the prosecution “for seven years” has affirmed in its reports that the problem of saturation due to the migratory phenomenon in the islands “can only be resolved if there is equitable distribution”.
The control of migrants is something that has been improved, he stressed, “which gives greater security to everyone to avoid confusion” and in general, since his last visit to El Hierro in October “there is no There is no color since he has “improved things” “since that moment he left” with the “Shrunken Heart”.
Regarding open cases of abuse, he stressed that “it’s not because of saturation, it’s because of the people.” The cases, two in each of the provinces of the Canary Islands, “are under investigation and may or may not result in a complaint.”
