The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, expresses his concern about the "critical situation" that the island is experiencing with the continuous arrival of boats. “The Canary route is out of control, the good sea conditions encourage new boats to continue coming and this is compromising the emergency services that are overwhelmed, focused on assisting migrants and unable to cope with the emergencies of the citizens of Lanzarote”, he pointed out in a press release.
Therefore, Betancort demands that Sánchez “visit the island as soon as possible and see with his own eyes the situation that is being experienced with immigration”.
This Friday, October 13, the Emergency and Security Consortium had to reinstall an alternative camp in Puerto Naos to assist the hundreds of people arriving "from Africa", given the saturation of the Temporary Migrant Assistance Center, CATE, in Arrecife.
“We recognize the titanic effort of the different State Security Forces and Bodies and the rescue services in assisting immigrants and we join their demands to obtain more personal and material resources to face this human drama”, said Betancort. Some demands, he points out, “must be channeled through the Government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, who, by the way, has not yet traveled to Lanzarote to address these issues”.
"We ask for more personal and material resources to face this human drama”, insists Oswaldo Betancort.
The highest authority of the island institution also asks the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, for a "signed commitment" for the installation of the SIVE (Comprehensive Exterior Surveillance Service) in the north of the island, after "more than eight years of having acquired the radar without it being operational yet".