Ceuta Grapples with Influx of Unaccompanied Moroccan Minors, Raising Crime Concerns

Moroccan minors live in poor conditions in Ceuta. A few weeks ago, the government delegate had invited the inhabitants of the autonomous city to stop feeding these migrants who continue to wander the streets, thinking thus to force them to return to Morocco. But this option risks producing the opposite effect, explain criminologists who assure that hunger could lead these minors to commit offenses or crimes.

The solution would rather be to locate these minors and group them in a suitable place where they will be taken care of and supervised, believes Ceuta al dia. They could also be distributed throughout Spain, the situation already being unsustainable for Ceuta which does not have the capacity to take care of all these minors estimated at around 1,200, adds the same source, which asks the government delegate and the president of the city to demand that the central government distribute the migrants, both minors and adults, throughout Spain.

The juvenile judge should also require the government authorities to clear the streets of all these minors in order to ensure their protection, indicates the same source, who invites the central government to act and find an urgent and lasting solution to the problem of Ceuta, rather than just sending subsidies. The city of Ceuta is not an immigrant prison, denounces the same source.