Ceuta is gradually recovering normality after the massive arrival of irregular immigrants
of these days coming from Morocco. Some of the minors who arrived in Ceuta this week did so deceived. According to the statements to EFE of a volunteer who distributes food at the Red Cross border, the Moroccan authorities told them that if they crossed the fence they could see the soccer players Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Police and volunteers are now focused on the care of the 850 minors who have crossed the fence and remain in Spain because no international treaty allows them to be returned to their country of origin immediately. All waiting for the legal return process to begin. Faced with the great health crisis caused by the covid, police officers are carrying out PCR tests to detect cases of coronavirus and isolate positive minors to avoid an outbreak.
Apart from the 850 minors, the youngest of them four years old, there is an unknown number in the vicinity of the port of Ceuta who await their opportunity to get on a ship and reach the peninsula, and another 230 who were already in the city before the massive arrival of these days remain in a juvenile center.
Of those, 200 will be sent to other Spanish cities, since they are boys who are integrated and have been living in Ceuta several months, according to government sources. The Police establishes two procedures for the care of minors, the first of them being family reunification, which is intended for parents who claim their children, for which the city authorities have provided a telephone number.
Families claim minors from Morocco
The Spanish Minister of Education, Isabel Celaá, said today that many families are claiming them from Morocco, so it will be studied “rigorously on a case-by-case basis”, always prevailing the best interests of the minor.
To determine the age in cases in which there are doubts, a test of the bones of the wrist and an oral X-ray are done. Minors continue to arrive this Thursday at the compound where they are treated, near the border, some voluntarily after spending several days sleeping on the street and eating from charity.
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