The lawyer Isabel González has responded to the controversial statements of Manuel Campo, Prosecutor for Minors of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Campo affirmed in Hoy por Hoy that “there are no minors today in any elderly center”. Although he points out: “That some person can escape us? Yes, but it is not the majority, because if four months ago nobody said they were minors, “What a coincidence that when the hotels are going to close, they are all minors!”
González, who assists migrants who arrived in the Canary Islands by boat, affirms forcefully that yes, there are unprotected migrant minors in the Canary Islands, “of course there are, I myself am the lawyer for a minor who arrived in Tenerife by boat. I received his birth certificate from Senegal two days ago. At the time I provided the scanned birth certificate and the Prosecutor decreed the file for me“, says the lawyer. Finally, the birth certificate shows that this migrant is indeed a minor.
“Although there are minors who say they are minors without being minors, we cannot make a rule of three and harm those who are not,” says the lawyer, contradicting what the Prosecutor said in Hoy por Hoy. “The duty of the State is to protect them “, explains the lawyer. If a minor claims to be a minor, all measures must be taken to prove it and in the meantime, protect and protect them as if they were until it is proven that they are not. “That is not the reality that the lawyers who assist the migrants who arrive in the patera to the Canary Islands live,” says Isabel González.
