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Migration crisis in the Canaries: the Spanish government must do its "self-criticism"

2020-11-21T18:05:18.533Z


The Spanish Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, said Friday, November 20 that the government should " make a self-criticism " about its management of the migration crisis in the Canary Islands, where around 2,000 illegal migrants are crowded into an encampment of fortune on the quay of a small port in the archipelago. Read also: Why France is poorly armed against radicalized migrants Since the s


The Spanish Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, said Friday, November 20 that the government should "

make a self-criticism

" about its management of the migration crisis in the Canary Islands, where around 2,000 illegal migrants are crowded into an encampment of fortune on the quay of a small port in the archipelago.

Read also: Why France is poorly armed against radicalized migrants

Since the start of the year, more than 16,700 African migrants have arrived in this archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of Africa, eleven times more than during the same period last year, according to the Spanish Interior Ministry.

Most of these migrants rescued by sea rescue services are taken to the small port of Arguineguín on the island of Gran Canaria.

Some 2000 migrants are currently accommodated on a quay of this port in conditions denounced as "

inhuman

" by several NGOs.

"

I recognize that we have to be self-critical, because there was a time when the conditions in the port of Arguineguín were perhaps not the most suitable for human beings,

" Margarita Robles said on television. Spanish national.

The minister recalled that the army had made available to the regional authorities a site which it no longer uses and which has been transformed into a camp which can accommodate some 800 people.

Read also: Spain: 200 migrants will be evacuated from a port in the Canaries

Located near Las Palmas, the main city of the island, this new Barranco Seco camp has already received nearly 400 migrants since Wednesday, according to the government.

Faced with this crisis, two ministers were in the Canaries on Friday, including the minister in charge of migration, José Luis Escrivá.

Margarita Robles declined to answer when asked if the government plans to transfer migrants to the peninsula, as claimed by the socialist president of the Canary Islands regional government.

Spain is also activating its diplomacy to try to prevent departures to the Canaries and resume the repatriation of migrants to their country of origin.

The Spanish Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, thus met his Moroccan counterpart, Abdelouafi Laftit, on Friday in Rabat, while the head of diplomacy, Arancha Gonzalez Laya, will be in Senegal.

Source: lefigaro

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