SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 18 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, has expressed his discontent regarding the appeal made by the High Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Community against the protocol established for the care of unaccompanied migrant minors. He underscored that this protocol is solely designed to safeguard minors and ensure their legal protection.
During a press conference, Fernando Clavijo stated that while the Public Prosecutor’s Office is “very stringent” with the Canary Islands Government once the minors arrive on the islands, it is essential that they are “equally stringent” with the State and “not permit, as has been the case for months, the transfer of these minors without adequate assurances.”
“If we aim to overly burden, place pressure on, and target only one of the three legs of the table, ultimately it will collapse and it is the children who bear the repercussions,” remarked Clavijo, who acknowledged that he would have preferred “greater promptness” from both the State and the Prosecutor’s Office in monitoring the entire process and “not merely exerting pressure at the final stage,” which falls under the jurisdiction of the autonomous community.