The Ministry of the Interior has installed a floating barrier in the sea in Melilla, similar to the one it placed in Ceuta a few days ago after tens of thousands of people entered the autonomous city on July 30.
The Government and the PP have agreed on the fundamental solution for the 1,527 migrant minors who remain in Ceuta, but they continue to clash over how to manage the meantime. The agreement that the priority solution involves family reunification and return to Morocco, put forward by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Justice, has not prevented a new clash between the Executive and the communities governed by the Popular Party, which this Thursday refused to include a specific item for information and debate on the situation of the minors and the autonomous city in the agenda of the next Sectoral Conference on Childhood and Adolescence.
The case of the luxury penthouse in Chamberí acquired by the Community of Madrid has experienced in recent hours a qualitative leap that tightens the seams of the regional Government presided over by Isabel Díaz Ayuso. What began as a first-rate political controversy due to shadows of opacity and the changing explanations from Puerta del Sol has formally entered the courts, after the head of the Court of Instruction number 8 of Madrid, magistrate Rosario de Fátima Espinosa, has opened preliminary proceedings in relation to five complaints focused on the purchase of a property worth 6.3 million euros executed by a Madrid public company.
The central Government intends to “prioritize,” as Territorial Policy Minister Ángel Víctor Torres assured yesterday, the family reunification of unaccompanied migrant minors who remain in Ceuta after crossing en masse to the autonomous city on July 30 and 31. But this route, now prioritized over relocation to other autonomous communities, presents serious difficulties. Among them, the full cooperation of the countries of origin, but also the willingness of the minor to return to the place they fled from. Hence, an open door, which the Government hinted at yesterday, is the possibility that these adolescents, mostly Moroccan, be reunited with relatives who already live in other parts of Spain or even in other European countries.
“Do not risk their lives, their money, their future in an adventure doomed to failure.” On his first official visit to the autonomous city of Ceuta – the first ever by a Foreign Minister in the history of Spain – José Manuel Albares delivered a strong message this Tuesday to those planning to cross illegally into Ceuta, Melilla, or the Peninsula, guaranteeing that “even the last person who has entered irregularly will be returned to Morocco.”
The Moroccan Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Ouahbi, has firmly demanded the return to Morocco of Moroccan children and minors who crossed the Ceuta border at the end of July and are currently in Spain, and has held the Spanish authorities responsible for their situation.
The Civil Guard has arrested one of the daughters of the couple formed by the former secretary of the Union of Farmers and Ranchers of Aragon (UAGA), Javier Sánchez, and Esther Latorre, who were murdered last Friday in Tauste (Zaragoza), and her current partner as alleged perpetrators of the double homicide, according to sources from the armed institute.
The president of Ceuta, Juan Jesús Vivas, has asked the Government to install a detention center for immigrants to confine the between 8,000 and 11,000 people who, according to his calculations, are still in the autonomous city until they are expelled, and the creation of “a single command” to provide an “effective” response to a situation he has described as “unbearable, unsustainable, and unacceptable” resulting from the “invasion” of July 30.
The Deputy Secretary of Autonomous and Municipal Policy of the Popular Party, Elías Bendodo, confirmed this Monday from Barcelona that the communities where the Popular Party governs alone will participate in the sectoral meeting convened this Thursday by the Government to address the situation of minors in Ceuta.
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy, Edmondo Cirielli, called on Spain this Monday to “assume its responsibilities” for the regularization of immigrants and insisted that they will maintain controls on passengers coming from Spain by air and sea “at least until mid-August” and will then evaluate the situation.
