The General Directorate for Child Protection transferred thirteen minors of North African origin to resources in Gran Canaria on Tuesday, involved in the fight that took place on Sunday in La Santa, in Lanzarote, between a group of boys who arrived in a boat and another group of young people. from the island itself.

Sources from that department of the Government of the Canary Islands confirmed to EFE that the thirteen transferred are involved in this confrontation, in which the two groups threw stones after an incident that occurred in a bus. These are adolescents who declare that they are 16 and 17 years old and that they have recently arrived in Lanzarote, although in some cases there is a suspicion that they have lied about their age and are adults.

The transfer of these young people to other resources will also allow the decongestion of the youth shelter in Lanzarote, the island that has received the largest number of boats for months, after it has come to provisionally accommodate more than 60 boys. The objective of the General Directorate for Child Protection is that the center of La Santa does not exceed 40 or 45 users.

On the same Tuesday, the Canarian president, Ángel Víctor Torres, assured that a “better alternative” to the La Santa shelter, provisionally enabled by the CC in the previous legislature for the immediate reception of non-immigrant minors, would be sought within Lanzarote. accompanied.

“The proposal is that we look for a better alternative within the island to be able to accommodate unaccompanied minors”, asserted Torres who, however, has reproached CC for hastening to demand the immediate closure of this reception center, when considering that if it was opened it is because it is needed and that “what you have to do is help and support the measures that build a more supportive Canary Islands”.

In addition to regretting “the xenophobic messages”, especially on social networks, which in circumstances of this type are often directed against immigrants, in which the PSOE (his political party) is not going to participate, Torres assured that the Canarian government ” He always helps and others are the ones who put obstacles in the way ”.

The regional president stressed that “the best option for Lanzarote” will be sought, while thanking the work carried out by the mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machín, and the president of the island’s Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo, in the search for this commitment.