Six people transferred until the facilities authorized by the Ministry of the Interior in the old Las Raices barracks left the premises to ask for shelter in facilities of the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
As confirmed by sources from the capital city council, the technicians of the Mobile Approach Unit who daily attend to applicants for a place in the municipal reception center attended to these six people, of Maghreb origin, who they asked to spend the night in these facilities. After not having obtained one of the nearly 100 enabled places -they are awarded in order of arrival-, they left.
The migrant camp set up in the ex-barracks of Las Raices, in front of Los Rodeos Airport, received the first eighty people this Friday morning between one great waterspout, about seven degrees of temperature and in full weather alert for snow.
Various associations, including Canarias Libre de CIE, sThey have manifested this Saturday to denounce the conditions to which these people are subjected and the transfer plans. The concentration occurred in the central Plaza de La Candelaria from Santa Cruz de Tenerife where two of the hotels that welcome migrants are located on the island since the summer of 2020.
– A group of about two hundred people have gathered this Saturday in the Plaza de Candelaria in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where two of the hotels that host migrants in Tenerife since the summer are located, to protest the policies that the State Government applies to all of them in the Canary Islands / Cadena SER
As he La Laguna Town Hall As the Canary Islands Government have stated that they hope that both the Las Raíces and Las Canteras barracks – waiting to be opened – will be temporary resources.
According to the latest data provided by the Government Delegation, about 9,000 migrants remain in the Islands after the departure of about 17,000.
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