The Minister of the Interior, Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, announced this Wednesday in Madrid that his department will open an investigation into the alleged failures of the Integrated External Surveillance System (SIVE) in not detecting the boat that sank on February 15 on the north coast of Lanzarote, costing the lives of 25 people.
Rubalcaba, however, preferred to maintain the current official thesis, in the sense that when there are many waves and the boats are small, "the SIVE does not detect them or detects them and loses them," said the minister. In any case, he specified, he is waiting to receive the official report from the Civil Guard on this matter and refused to assess the news that appeared in that sense in the ABC newspaper, which indicates that the SIVE did warn up to three times of the presence of the boat, but despite this the protocol was not activated. "Leaks always cause me some doubts," he argued.
Regarding the thesis on the existence of shadow areas that the SIVE does not reach, Rubalcaba warned that "when a company as technologically sophisticated leaves a shadow area, I suppose it cannot be omitted," in allusion to the fact that these cannot be avoided.
The minister also insisted that, from what he knows so far of what happened that Sunday, February 15, "the commanders [of the Civil Guard] who have gone to the Canary Islands rule out negligence on the part of the Guard who was in command of the operation that night," while saying that he stressed that the SIVE is the "most technologically advanced" system known.
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