Política

The appearance of Trampolín beach, where hundreds of immigrants had settled in inhumane conditions after refusing to leave Ceuta, was that of a camp where people were beginning to put down roots. Sub-Saharan Africans setting up stalls with some food, tobacco, or sneakers that once belonged to the 141 people who lost their lives in the fateful mass crossing. There were Moroccans building a kind of mosque with milk cartons or improvising barbershops. Huts, from both groups, that were taking shape beyond the initial reeds that supported them. As if all of them, being only estimated figures for the administrations, assumed that their life on the sand was going to be long. Until yesterday, 21 days after the avalanche, when with a late stroke they ceased to be invisible. No matter how many photos on newspaper front pages they have dominated.

King Juan Carlos returned this Thursday to Barcelona to say the final goodbye to his friend Josep Cusí. In a lightning trip, coming from Geneva, the King’s father stayed several hours at the deceased’s home to accompany the family in these sad moments.

The municipal government of Valladolid, formed by the coalition between the Popular Party and Vox, has excluded victims of gender-based violence as beneficiaries of social rental housing. The measure, which was announced in May and also increased the minimum years of registration, seeks to extend the criterion reserved for victims of sexist violence to all those who have suffered violence in the family environment.

The Government has announced that it will transfer to the peninsula 500 girls who arrived in Ceuta on July 30 and have remained in the autonomous city for 20 days under very harsh conditions: exposed to the elements, without water or food or the possibility to clean themselves, and under the threat of being victims of sexual assaults. The NGO Save the Children estimates that there are still about 4,000 minors left in Ceuta. Europe and the PP advocate for their expulsion from the country. The Government has also stated on several occasions that “all” immigrants remaining in Ceuta will be repatriated. Is it possible to expel unaccompanied minors from Spain?

Isabel Díaz Ayuso has moved to Puerta de Hierro. The information, reported by El País, has not been explicitly confirmed by the Madrid president, but it has been indirectly confirmed by her chief of staff, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, who reacted on X to question the publication of her residence. “What interest is there in publishing where the president lives?” MAR asked. With this protest, Ayuso’s circle has ended up accepting a move that takes place at a particularly delicate moment for the real estate policy of the Community of Madrid.

The Secretary of State for Youth and Childhood, Rubén Pérez Correa, has described the mass deportations of minors proposed at a joint press conference in Ceuta this Wednesday by the President of the Autonomous City, Juan Jesús Vivas, and the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, as a “manifest illegality.”

Escribía ayer en estas páginas Joaquín Vera, los imprescindibles ojos de La Vanguardia en Ceuta, que los vecinos definen su ciudad como un polvorín a punto de estallar. También se suceden, más allá de lo que pueden confirmar y contar los periodistas, los múltiples testimonios…

Once again, unaccompanied migrant minors are at the center of the political fray. The number of children and adolescents roaming the streets of Ceuta since they crossed the border in a rush is unknown. But two figures can help gauge the emergency: the autonomous city, responsible for their care, has accommodated 1,376 minors in various spaces, but the National Police have registered 2,168 youngsters. That is, almost 800 migrants under 18 have been identified but are not yet under the care services’ umbrella. And to these should be added those who have not even been registered by the Security Forces. While hundreds of minors wander alone through the streets in unhealthy conditions and urgently need three meals a day, the Government and the opposition have intensified the debate over their future – return or care – as if it were a collective decision.

Alberto Núñez Feijóo returned to Ceuta yesterday, for the second time in just over fifteen days, to demand the voluntary return or expulsion of “all” the immigrants who entered the autonomous city irregularly in the mass entry that overwhelmed the city’s border.

Officers of the National Police and the Civil Guard have deployed early in the morning at El Trampolín beach, where most of the immigrants who remain in the autonomous city since the mass crossing are concentrated, for the transfer of people to two of the new reception centers enabled by the Government, which already have 1,800 beds.