The Spanish Episcopal Conference calls on the government to "guarantee above all the life and safety of minors", in accordance with national laws and international conventions, which require "their consent" before any possible repatriation.
José Luis Martinez-Almeida, mayor of Madrid and spokesperson for the Spanish Popular Party (PP), reacted to the expulsion of minors from Ceuta. In his sights, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
At least 60 Moroccan minors escaped this Saturday from the Piniers center in Ceuta to avoid the ongoing repatriation operation. The national police are actively searching for them.
The Attorney General’s Office has just opened an investigation into the repatriation operation to Morocco of some 800 minor migrants who arrived in Ceuta in May. The Spanish justice, which was not informed of this operation, wants to know everything about the conditions of return of the Moroccan children.
The second vice-president of Ceuta, Carlos Rontomé, providing details on the operation to repatriate to Morocco the minors who arrived in the autonomous city in May, said on Friday that "the Moroccan government will be responsible for locating the families of the minors and carrying out family reunifications."
The Ombudsman asked the Ministry of the Interior on Friday to suspend the operation to repatriate unaccompanied Moroccan minors from Ceuta to Morocco. The institution has received several complaints from NGOs defending children’s rights, who denounce the lack of legal guarantees in the procedure.
Moroccan director Narjiss Nejjar is going through painful hours. Soufiane, her only son, barely 17 years old, died in a car accident.
Some 5,000 migrants, mostly those who arrived in mass on May 17 and 18, continue to wander the streets of Ceuta. The borders with Morocco also remain closed until the end of this month, pending a hypothetical reopening.
The government delegate in Ceuta , Salvadora Mateos, assured on Monday that the Spanish government is working to ensure that all Moroccan minors who entered en masse in May return to their families.
A 12-year-old boy of Moroccan origin fell more than 7 meters on an unsecured abandoned construction site in Andratx (Balearic Islands). His vital prognosis is engaged.
A 5-year-old girl from Ceuta died in a private clinic in Tangier as a result of the respiratory problems she had been suffering from since birth. She and her parents had been barred from boarding the plane that was to take them to Malaga because of the oxygen bottle that fed the respiratory device connected to the girl.
The Valencian Community will welcome 25 minors next week as part of the operation to distribute 200 Moroccan migrants among the nearly 8,000 who arrived en masse in Ceuta in May.