After the opening of borders and the lifting of the confinement orders, around 25 migrants tried this Sunday to catch a boat from the Fred Olsen company bound for Huelva from the Port of La Luz and Las Palmas. However, their trip has been thwarted by lacking -at least some of them- official documentation.
According to sources to which the SER has had access, the National Police have not allowed them to travel, since the only documentation they carried is a photocopy of their passport and not the original.
On the contrary, from the NGO Walking Borders They assure that this week another group of migrants has been able to reach the Peninsula from the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife by having identification issued by their respective consulates. Its spokesperson, Helena Maleno, is concerned about the risks that these people are taking when traveling in these “unlawful conditions”.
“We are especially concerned about the situation of women who have lost their children on boats and have been in the Canary Islands for seven months and are not allowed to travel or have a family network,” says Maleno, who insists that these people “They need to travel because they require a dignified welcome.”
In addition, it affects the risk of that the Canary Islands “become Ceuta and Melilla or Lesbos (Greece) with the blocking of the right to move freely “and that is why it asks that” the situations for which people must be transferred to other places on the Peninsula be verified. “
From the CIE Free Canary Islands Platform they had evidence that This group of migrants wanted to cross to the Peninsula before being confined when they learned that they were going to be transferred from the Tamareceite sports center to the Felo Monzón Vocational Training Center, both devices set up by the Red Cross for the reception of migrants who arrived in patera or cayuco in recent months to the Islands.
And it is that, according to denounce, this last installation is oversaturated to the point that it only has two bathrooms for 93 people that are currently hosted. Some toilets for which, in addition, they must walk 15 minutes.
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