The Prosecutor's Office requests the immediate suspension of the Canarian protocol to "order" the reception of minors

The Senior Prosecutor of the Canary Islands, María Farnés, requests that the protocol be suspended as a "very urgent precautionary measure" and warns that its application violates the Constitution and the Convention on the Rights of the Child

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September 18 2024 (10:35 WEST)
Updated in September 18 2024 (12:30 WEST)
Fernando Clavijo, President of the Canary Islands
Fernando Clavijo, President of the Canary Islands

The Prosecutor's Office has requested the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) to immediately suspend the protocol published by the Government of Fernando Clavijo to organize the reception of minors arriving in pateras, for harming children in a "situation of patent helplessness."

As reported by the Prosecutor's Office in a statement, the Senior Prosecutor of the Canary Islands, María Farnés Martínez, filed her appeal this Wednesday before the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the TSJC, to which she requests that the protocol be suspended as a "very urgent precautionary measure" (that is, urgently and without first hearing the arguments that the Canary Islands Government may put forward).

The Public Prosecutor's Office understands that the procedure that the Government of the Canary Islands intends to follow to regulate the arrival of minors to its reception centers violates the Constitution and the Convention on the Rights of the Child and, in practice, "implies the absence of immediate attention to the situation of patent helplessness in minors arriving from the sea to the coasts of the community."

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