A host family contralateral collected 5,000 signatures as believing that "they are sent to hell" 21/05/2008 - 7:21 - CZECH
VALENCIA ARTURO
A police officer with three Romanian children caught in Valencia when he allegedly robbed a bank in late 2007.
In late 2007, Police ended a criminal group for many months that struck the city of Valencia and nearby towns: a group of Romanian citizens employed 24 minors to steal from ATMs and also forced to beg. Many of the children barely exceeded five years. Today, while some are placed in juvenile facilities, others are in foster care in Valencian families.
But the beginning of the end of your stay in Valencia may be starting. Has been told the provinces, the Government through the Ministry of Interior has initiated records repatriation of about fifteen teenagers. The Executive undertaking this action under a treaty signed two years ago between Spain and Romania agreed to send to this country from Romania teens unaccompanied by their parents in Spain.
From Valencia Juvenile Prosecutor confirmed the existence of these files and indicated that they carried out "after locating their parents in Romania and ensure that detention facilities in that country meet the optimum conditions for the development of children ".
This agreement exists both in the country recently integrated into the European Union and Morocco and Senegal, two of the countries of origin of the majority of children who end up calling in circumstances often illegal in Spain.
In fact, the same sources said that the Romanian Consulate has expressly objected to these teens are adopted in Spain, so the only option is to be welcomed by a family (some of them already are) or placed in juvenile facilities. Currently, 24 children are at residential care and supervised by the Ministry of Social Welfare. "
Send them back to their country is sending them to hell." And pronounce who is Fran, a Valencian hosts with his partner during the weekend two of these children, two boys aged four and six years. They have been the drivers of a campaign (in which NGOs have been involved in protection against immigrants) already has collected "about 5,000 firms" against this measure to be forwarded to the Ombudsman for Children.
The couple have lodged an appeal against the repatriation to the Ombudsman, "who has already accepted" as noted by the applicant.
time adolescents in the Region may begin to run out next August. This is when the maximum time limit of nine months that comprise the emergency and diagnostic placement for most children is with families. What Fran and many other couples in the Comunitat ask is that the Department Social Welfare in care scheme becomes simple, "thus prolonging their stay at least two years", or even permanent, as the Valencian.
Thousands of street children
The complainant and her partner are waiting for a meeting with representatives of the Regional Department. "Only the parent has located one of the children and the rest will go to an orphanage. You are not taking into account the paramount interest of the child, as required by English law, and Social Welfare as well Prefectures should. The opposite is sent to a country where every year of 2,000 children end up living on the street ", exposed the plaintiffs in the leaves with which they are collecting signatures all over Valencia.
Romanian Association of the Region also is in favor of minors to remain in Spain." If there are host families who agree to have them with them, no doubt this can have an education and a better future in Romania, "said the chairman of the authority, Daniel Ionita. That itself is logical to return home "If there is located a family member to take care of them."
However, at the same time, the Romanian representative was in favor of the English government implemented "Drastic measures" against their countrymen who commit crimes in the Region, "because it is not fair that we pay all of them and our image is damaged by their crimes."
"There's no one expects them," says Fran. The Valencian stresses again and again that children are innocent of the crime that forced him to make the band. "They steal to survive. They believed that people lived by stealing, till they have taught that it is normal to get up every day and go to work," explains a member of a host family.
sent back to Romania would, according to the plaintiff, "turn back the victims, in this case of a system that decides no longer be protected. "
