Agents of the National Police from the Local Police Station of Telde have arrested a man as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of child abandonment and against the rights of foreign citizens, after leaving his son alone and subsequently attempting to leave the national territory.
The events occurred on December 19, when a police unit was dispatched by the CIMACC 091 Operations Room, after learning that a minor of Maghrebi origin had gone to the headquarters of the Red Cross located in the municipality of Telde on his own initiative.
The child stated that he had arrived in Gran Canaria the day before by plane with his father, who intended to return to his country of origin later, leaving him alone in Spain and taking his documentation with him, which placed the minor in a clear situation of abandonment and lack of documentation.
The Local Brigade for Foreigners and Borders in Telde took charge of the minor, who was initially transferred to the facilities of the General Corps of the Canarian Police in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and subsequently admitted to a child reception center in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, by order of the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office, where he remains under institutional guardianship and protection.
The agents initiated an investigation to locate the alleged perpetrator of the acts, and through police databases, it was confirmed that the minor and his parent had entered Spanish territory together on December 15th on a flight from Morocco.
Following the analysis of airport security recordings, which corroborated that both left the terminal together, accompanied by a third male, and once the minor's father was identified, a police search operation was activated.
On December 19, investigators received a communication from the Gran Canaria Airport Border Post alerting them that the alleged perpetrator **was attempting to leave the country on a flight bound for Marrakech**, so agents immediately traveled to the airport and proceeded to detain the individual before he could leave national territory.Once the police proceedings were concluded, the arrested individual was handed over to the competent judicial authority, who ordered his provisional imprisonment
The National Police reminds that the abandonment of a minor constitutes a serious crime, with criminal consequences, therefore, a call is made to the responsibility of parents or legal guardians to avoid situations of risk and neglect that compromise the safety and fundamental rights of minors, especially when they are in a country other than their own.
