Mavi Marcos, the Lanzarote native who has remained from November 2008 to December 2010 in a prison in Quito, Ecuador, has been transferred from the Soto del Real prison, in Madrid, to Salto del Negro, in Gran Canaria. Mavi managed to get the prison authorities to transfer her in December from the prison in Ecuador to the one in Madrid, where she has remained for five months.
The Lanzarote native was informed that she would be transferred to the Canary Islands last week. Thus, after spending a night in the Alcalá Meco prison, also in Madrid, she was guarded to the Salto del Negro prison, in Gran Canaria.
"She has been in Las Palmas for two days, but we want her to come here." These are the words of Toñi Cabrera, Mavi's mother, who has been fighting all this time for her daughter to return to her land and serve her sentence in Lanzarote. Therefore, she will try to have her transferred "as soon as possible" to the Tahíche prison.
"I think the poor girl has been left with a bit of sadness, because when they told her they were sending her to the Canary Islands she thought she was coming to Lanzarote," laments Toñi, who assures that she will continue doing "everything possible" for her daughter to return home. "I'm happy, I have her closer, I talk to her every day, every morning, but she should have already obtained the third degree and could be serving her sentence on the island," insists this mother.
Mavi Marcos was imprisoned in Quito after the police accused her of hiding six kilos of cocaine in her suitcase. She was arrested at the airport in Ecuador and sent to a penitentiary, one of the most dangerous in South America. Her mother continues to defend her innocence.
