The justice was a center of migrants from Gran Canaria and imputes to a dozen workers | Spain
The Pilot Court of Violence against Children and Adolescents of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has agreed on Monday the closure and judicial seal of the center for unaccompanied migrants The fortress I, on the Canarian Island, managed by the social quorum 77, As explained by the Superior Court of Justice of the Archipelago. These proceedings have resulted in the imputation of at least a dozen center staff. The facilities have been open since 2020, and currently house 43 children.
The judicial authority has made this decision before the « numerous evidence and testimonies » received about the alleged commission of crimes of injury, hate, omission of the duty to prevent crimes or promote their persecution, against moral integrity and threats. During the morning, the Autonomous Police has registered the facilities, located in a residential area in the Medianías of the Island. The Court has fought the Ministry of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Children and Families informing him of the closure, in order to « procure the precise measures to ensure the well -being and protection of the people who resided there. »
Quorum 77 is the main winner of the Canary Islands Government for the management of minors, with about thirty devices in the archipelago. It was founded in the islands in 2008 by Sevillana Delia García. « Here we have profiles of children with greater behavioral complexity, » He told El País in a visit to the center of La Fortaleza, in December 2023. « Of course there are incidents, » he admitted then. « The issue of consumption (narcotics) is worrisome. Or the commission of some kind of crimes. But notice the control that is out there. We know how to act when problems arise. »
The general director of childhood protection and families, Sandra Rodríguez, said Monday that the department he directs, « when he has knowledge, either via inspections », for external complaints « either of workers or other institutions such as the Canarian health service itself or the educational center », gives « immediately transfer to the Court » to investigate. Especially « in those cases in which the General Directorate receives complaints of flagrant situations of vulnerability of the best interests of the child. »
In this sense, Rodríguez explained that « in the last two or three months » has required several entities to proceed to the precautionary separation of some workers, a process that has sometimes led to their dismissal.
The Autonomous Community is currently 5,675 minors in 86 devices whose management commission a series of organizations. The Executive usually pays 90 euros per day and less than these organizations. The treatment that some of them give to the minors, in any case, is in the spotlight of the General Directorate of Child Protection of the Government of the Canary Islands. An investigation by El País in July revealed overcrowdingthe lack of schooling, the complaints of ill -treatment and lack of professionals that are given in a good part of the devices. Some of these centers ended up jumping to the media, such as the conditions in which half a hundred children lived In a Lanzarote center that the Prosecutor’s Office ordered to close.
Among the devices managed by Social 77 in the Canary Islands is an old center for the breeding and training of pigeons in Tenerife. Two extrabajadores of this center reported for the country episodes of ill -treatment due, to a large extent, to the caregiver profile that some entities hire to deal with children. « There is everything but educators. They put disco porters to intimidate the boys. »
Canary Islands has declared numerous occasions be overwhelmed by the arrival of unaccompanied migrants. In March, the Council of Ministers approved the modification of the Foreigner Law for the redistribution of about 4,400 migrants between autonomous communities, Decree Law that was ratified in the Congress of Deputies On April 10 after almost a year of negotiations between the central government, the Canary and some other communities, endless disagreements and Even a failed vote In the camera.
This law is finding the blockade of the regions governed by the PP. Government confirmed on the 13th that will undertake legal actions against these autonomous communities. The first objective will be Aragon, the community that has opposed more resistance. The executive of Jorge Azcón (PP) has not only rejected the cast, which is now mandatory by law, but also Nor has you facilitated the requested information to dimension its reception capacity and calculate the reception quotas that correspond to each territory.
