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[-] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

How the hell is that even a migrant route! If you get lost you are absolutely screwed!

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


SAN CRISTOBAL DE LA LAGUNA, Spain, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Orphaned during a coup in his homeland Guinea, teenager Moussa Camara took to sea in a wooden boat with 240 other migrants, enduring an 11-day voyage, half of it without food and fresh water, before reaching the Canary Islands.

"We are children ... they betrayed us," he said with a friend also classed as an adult at an old military base in Tenerife's mountains, where some 2,000 migrants await transfers to mainland Spain or permission to go elsewhere in Europe.

It told Reuters it had looked into 48 cases of suspected minors at Las Raices in recent months, of which four were confirmed, 30 sent to a children's facility pending age tests, and the other 14 still in assessment.

Fran Morenilla, a migration lawyer in the southern Spanish city of Almeria, said he was seeing a high number of minors arriving in mainland Spain who had been registered as adults in the Canary Islands.

At Tenerife's Las Raices adult migrants' centre in San Cristobal de La Laguna, Camara and his friend from the voyage, 16-year-old Modou Lamin Jarju from Gambia, sat around with dozens of other west Africans.

"Do you know what a mother or father has to go through to put their six-year-old or seven-year-old son in a cayuco (small wooden boat) with 200 or more people they don't know and throw them into the open sea at night?"


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