More than a thousand people ask for measures in Badajoz after the murder of a social educator | Spain
Under a constant and silent rain, more than a thousand people have marched through different streets of Badajoz to remember and claim solutions after the death of Belén Cortés, 35 years old, The social educator murdered on March 9 in a floor of judicial measures, allegedly, three children between 17 and 14 years old. A march that has left from the Plaza de España of the Pacense city and convened by various professional associations and unions of Extremadura, under the motto Belén we are all. Sufflent!. The protest intended to show her repulsion for the murder of the educator and ask for solutions so that similar situations are not repeated. Among the measures that demand: greater security within the youth reform protection system and that the professions of the guild are recognized the situations of violence they can live. For this they ask that the authority figure be recognized.
Inés María Solomando, general secretary of the College of Professionals of Social Educators of Extremadura, has explained that the march has occurred in silence with the aim of making visible the message they want to transmit and In respect of the deceased companion, Belén Cortés. « We need more security, that we are taken seriously from above to the professionals who work in the social sphere, who know how When there was also knowledge by the administration of complaints of previous violence of these minors.
From the Professional College they also affect the lack of surveillance that are in these protected floors for the fulfillment of judicial measures that are in an open regime. « We have had a meeting with the Minister of Health and Social Services of the Board of Extremadura and we have transferred our shortcomings, both ours and the groups that we are in the demonstration, » said the general secretary of the Professional College. After the meeting with the Administration they have announced the creation of a technical table in which all professionals will be in the social field, whose objective will be to analyze the shortcomings and improve them.
For her part, the president of the Official College of Professionals of Social Educators of Extremadura, María Victoria Rodríguez, has assured that what happened is the tip of the iceberg, « this we had been warning it in all the senses, not only from Extremadura, but also at the level of the professional associations of social educators in other territories, » said Rodríguez, which also affects that this situation now raises a point of reflection, now to analyze how the situation is for territories, where there is a lot of inequality, according to denounce.
The spokeswoman for social educators asks for an analysis of the situation of professionals nationwide and that the actions are agreed and do not affect Extremadura only, « each territory we have our characteristics, minors are a responsibility of the administration and as such we must demand it, » Rodriguez moved. As for conversations with the Board of Extremadura, he considers that they should have occurred before, although he recognizes an approach. « It is certainly to say that at the last minute there has been an answer and that in two days they summoned us in the Ministry of Health to see all the issues that from the Professional College of Educator and Social Educators of Extremadura we had already been raised, but this is not a matter of now, of this last government, but is a matter of more than 20 years, » said the president of this association.
The march has attended many professionals with jobs similar to that of Belén Cortés. As the case of Jesús Díaz, a social worker, who asks for social intervention to have a recognition as an authority figure, “our working conditions have to improve, because we work with our body and with our mental health, at many times we feel helpless, saturation, in the end there are many circumstances in what has happened with Bethlehem,” said Jesus. « We ask for improvements in the social sector, where the helplessness of the professionals who are in the floors of judicial measures is evident, we are constantly confronted with risk situations and with people who are having a bad time, the discomfort and stress is reversed against us that we are in the first row, there are times in which we are very exposed, » said another of the attendees, Rocío Contreras. « We need conditions of attention to citizenship, we are exposed with fouls with insecurities is our day, we miss a little more political commitment, » added Montserrat Moro.
The concentration has traveled several streets of the center and has ended again in this Plaza de España, where the reading of a manifesto has been carried out and a minute of silence has been kept as a sign of respect for the professional. From the organization they have stressed that this memory has been thought of peacefully, regardless of flags or logos, only present the slogans designed for the day. The demonstration has been convened by the Professional College of Educators and Social Educators of Extremadura; the Official Social Work Colleges of Cáceres and Badajoz; the Official College of Psychology of Extremadura; the Professional College of Occupational Therapists of Extremadura; the Official College of Pedagogues and Psychopedagogues of Extremadura; the Association of Children’s Educators Extremadura; or the Professional Association of Social Educators of IES de Extremadura. It has also been convened by the Association Technicians of Social Integration of Extremadura; The Platform for the Defense of Family Attention Programs, and CCOO, UGT, CSIF, SGTEX, USE, SIP and CNT unions.
