SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 10 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Deputy of the Común, Rafael Yanes, has announced this Friday that he has transferred to the Prosecutor’s Office the complaints made by the Hay Raíces collective about alleged abuses and cases of social exploitation of migrants sheltered in the Las Raíces camp, in the municipality from La Laguna.
Yanes also assured that the Ombudsman, Ángel Gabilondo, has carried out the supervision of the living conditions of the migrants received in the camp and transferred the response of the Secretary of State for Migrations in which it is stated that in the process of creating a new center in the same place, in accordance with Spain’s commitments to the European Union.
In addition, he affirmed that the projects of the newly created centers in the Canary Islands are already being processed, which will be of a public nature and will take into account the weather conditions of each place, collects a note from the Diputación del Común.
The new centers will comply with the humanitarian care standards derived from the evaluation made by the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), for the care of the different vulnerable profiles who have arrived on the Canary coasts.
Thus, once built, they will have health and psychological services, legal advice, training and workshops, as well as a sports area.
The president of Hay Raíces, Lucía Rodríguez, affirmed that the National Police has been responding to the complaints and what she is asking the group is that, “being adults and of legal age, it is understood as an agreement between two people, but it is not like that It is a social abuse.”
In addition, he added that “the Police affirm that there were three complaints registered in two years” and they know that there have been “more than 50 cases.”
