The superior chief of the National Police in the Canary Islands, Rafael Martínez, has disassociated this Monday the rise in crime in the archipelago from immigration.
Rafael Martínez, in statements to the media, has asserted that the phenomenon of immigration "has nothing to do directly with an increase in crime."
He indicated that in any city like Paris or Madrid there are a certain number of immigrants who may commit crimes, but he stressed that they are not newly arrived immigrants, but those who have been settled for five, ten or fifteen years.
"The newcomers have enough to do with finding a home to go to or where to settle to reside," the superior chief of the Police highlighted.
