Pestana assures that the SIVE could be operational "in a month"

The Government Delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, has confirmed this Monday that there is an agreement to install an Integrated Exterior Surveillance System (SIVE) in Lanzarote "in a month or a little more than a month", which "will solve the lack" of the system.

After participating in a press conference, Pestana specified that this SIVE will be located in "a space adjacent to a telephone installation." This will allow combining "respect for a viewpoint" that the City Council wants to preserve with the need to have this installation for detecting boats used by immigrants to enter Spain through this southern border of the EU.

Pestana assures that it is "in the final phase", and that there is also "agreement with the location", so, despite the delays, he maintains that "we must look forward", while congratulating himself for solving "the existing deficiencies in this area in this area of the archipelago."

Regarding the need to have more migrant reception infrastructures in Lanzarote, he pointed out that "it is something that is in process in the Ministries of Interior and Inclusion", from whose responsibilities they are "trying to improve the infrastructures in the Canary Islands Plan."

Pestana stressed that there is "a kind of refocusing of migration towards the eastern islands," because the boats do not arrive so much from the south of Mauritania or Senegal, as they have done significantly to Gran Canaria, Tenerife or El Hierro, but now they depart "from areas closer to these islands" further east, which makes it necessary to "refocus the needs."
 

Pestana regrets that there has been "no kind of collaboration in Arrecife"

The delegate regretted that in Lanzarote there has been "no kind of collaboration in Arrecife", where a CATE was planned to assist migrants in the first 72 hours, in which they proceed to "their identification and the performance of Covid-19 detection tests."

Pestana stressed that in those 72 hours the migrants "do not leave the center", so he "does not understand the opposition of the Arrecife City Council."

In relation to the warehouse enabled in the capital of Lanzarote for this purpose, Anselmo Pestana said that this type of space "does not meet the necessary conditions." Hence, the objective is to consolidate "a stable network of centers with capacity for migratory peaks and with State capacities" that attends to these people with "the necessary dignity in the first hours" following their arrival to the Islands.