La Santa experienced a great moment of tension this Sunday when some migrant minors from the shelter started throwing stones at young people from the town. A fight that ended with the arrival of agents from the Civil Guard and the Local Police, although "when they arrived they were already gone."
According to La Provincia, the Civil Guard has identified about twenty people for their alleged involvement in the events and the investigation remains open.
As a neighbor explained to La Voz, "the situation has caused mothers with small children who were in the dock area and on the beach to have to run away to avoid being hit by the stones." The reader asks for action to be taken now on the problem "that we suffer with the migrant minors from the shelter." "It's not all of them but it is a large group of them who don't know how to respect or maintain a good coexistence with the neighbors," she says.
The origin of the fight, according to the mayor of Tinajo to La Voz, occurred after a young resident of La Santa was accosted on a bus that covered the route between Arrecife and La Santa on Saturday by the minors for defending a girl from San Bartolomé who they were bothering in the vehicle. The girl got off in San Bartolomé and the immigrant minors attacked her when they arrived in the town. This Sunday other young people from the town reprimanded them for their aggression against the neighbor and they responded by throwing stones.
"Nobody does anything, nobody says anything and this situation is already unsustainable because the integrity of everyone is in danger, especially the children who unexpectedly find themselves in the middle of a pitched battle of stones," she laments. "As I said once in La Santa we are used to living with people from all over the world and helping whoever needs it. But we don't have to let them attack us or our children either. That would be the last straw."
Fortunately there have been no injuries despite "how big the stones were", as the citizen relates.
