The Socialist Party in the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has requested this Friday the disapproval of the Councilor for Security of the capital, the defector Evelyn Alonso, after link the fights that have been taking place in the city with migrant minors. “According to the municipal group, the information comes from the National Police. However, it lies,” they criticized in a message shared on social networks.
The refugee councilor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife links the fights with migrant minors
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We request the disapproval of Evelyn Alonso after her words pointing to migrant minors. According to the Socialist GM, the information comes from the National Police.
However, he lies. On @Cahora 👉https://t.co/pdDd0ygpAg pic.twitter.com/oWv9Dq5Lt9
– PSOE Santa Cruz de Tenerife / ❤️ (@PSOESantaCruzTF) February 25, 2022
It should be remembered that Alonso claimed to have based himself on information provided by the National Police Corps to directly point out young immigrants protected by the Government of the Canary Islands for the fights in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. That comment was denied both by the police force and by the Government Delegation in the Canary Islands, both They stated that they had not given the councilor that information.
Therefore, for the Socialists, the councilor has lied in her response to a specific question from the party about what data her department handled “so that the person in charge has affirmed that the fights that are taking place between young people in the city are provoked, organized or caused by young migrants. Her answer, literally, was: “The information that the National Police Corps sends us.”
Both the Canary Islands Superior Police Headquarters and the Government Delegation have denied to this newspaper that the National Police Corps has provided any information in this regard to the Department of Security of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council. More specifically, in the Government Delegation they refer to the answer that the Government delegate, Anselmo Pestana, offered to journalists last Wednesday, when an informant asked him specifically about those appreciations of xenophobic overtones of the turncoat councilor.
Pestana stressed that it is true that there are migrants who commit crimes, but that “this cannot become a kind of paradigm of something that is happening regularly because it is not true.” The Government delegate reported that most of the crimes committed by this group have to do with their legal documentation and with fights between their members.
