The president of the Govern, Marga Prohens, has criticized on Tuesday the“total lack of control” in the arrival to the islands of irregular immigrants in small boats. And she pointed out that this is due to “the lack of troops of the State Security Forces and Corps (FFCCSE)”. According to Prohens “the lack of FFCCSE troops is linked to the difficulties to control the worrying crime data in the Balearic Islands” and “as a Government, we can only share the concern that this brings to citizens”, especially “when” migrants arriving at the coasts of the Islands “face them with defiant and obscene gestures”. Prohens has stressed in the plenary of the Parliament that the templates of the Police and the Civil Guard suffer a deficit of 750 agents due to the difficulties to settle in the islands due to the cost of housing, which does not compensate an insufficient insularity bonus. The Balearic Government has been claiming the update of this salary complement to the central Executive, according to the autonomic president. She also criticized that there is an “absolute paralysis” of the Government Delegation to support this claim and to put solution to the deficit of police and civil guards.
Vox Criticism
Prohens, who has addressed this issue in the chamber at the request of Vox, said that “the unprecedented arrival” of irregular immigrants in the last week, in a record year for the islands, generates concern among citizens. The spokeswoman for Vox, Manuela Cañadas, for whom immigration is a strategy of the PSOE to “alter the censuses”, has assured that the people arriving in small boats from Algeria are“a security risk” because “they provoke serious altercations in the neighborhoods”. In his opinion, the security mechanisms of the State fail and “citizens are more afraid every day” to go out on the streets. In the Balearic Islands the record arrival of immigrants“puts at risk the system and the resources available to the autonomous community”.“These people who invade our borders put the safety of citizens at risk, provoke altercations in, for example, Son Valentí, Son Gotleu, El Molinar or the Paseo Marítimo,” he added. And he concluded that “it is not normal that it is the people who have to defend themselves against aggressors who do not know how to live together”. Last week at least 840 immigrants arrived in the Balearic Islands aboard 50 boats, and so far this year 4,675 irregular migrants have been intercepted in 284 boats.
