The President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijosaid this evening that he refuses to consider the humanitarian crisis that the islands are experiencing as natural and that it cannot be that more than 50 immigrants die on the road to the Canaries in just six days and that no one from the government called.
“It cannot be normal that 50 people die and that no one from the Spanish government has a call, a tweet, a gesture… I think this indicates a disinterest in migration, indicates a disinterest in the Canarian people, as we set an example,” he stressed.
Clavijo made these statements in Lanzarote, after meeting with the president of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancord, to find out the situation on the island after the arrival of dozens of boats and inflatable boats on its coasts last week.
The President of the Canary Islands He stressed that even the Pope praised the “example of solidarity” given by the islands.therefore, he said, it is not possible for other administrations to leave them alone.
Fernando Clavijo recalled that since the beginning of November, more than 3,600 people have been rescued in the Canary Islands aboard boats and canoes and that more than fifty have lost their lives at sea.
“It seems that this number of deaths was considered natural and no, we refuse to consider it natural that there are people dying trying to find some hope and even more so in the number of deaths this weekend. end,” he stressed.
According to him, “it cannot continue like this” and The Spanish government “cannot look away from this humanitarian crisis”but rather “we must be present, we must put in the means”.
“Frontex (the European Border Agency) is still not deployed, we still do not have a migration policy, we still do not have entry controls at our borders and this therefore generates what we are experiencing “, he added.
