Abuses of minors in the Balearic Islands that could not be silenced

The members of the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament who have traveled to Mallorca to gather information on the very serious matter of

concluded their mission yesterday.

In three months they will issue a report but their spokesman,

, stressed yesterday that "nobody in the EU wants this, we have to find solutions", shortly before declaring to this newspaper his astonishment that two institutions ensure that

with girls on a street in Palma»

.

It is sad that this delegation had to come to try to shed some light.

Because such an assignment would not have been claimed if the Balearic authorities had taken seriously a scandal that shocks the public.

On the contrary, the government chaired by the socialist

has displayed an intolerable obscurantism since the case exploded.

The trigger was the complaint two years ago of a 14-year-old girl after suffering a

in Palma on Christmas Eve.

The event revealed

, And the Mallorcan Institute of Social Affairs then admitted that it knew of at least 16 cases of child sexual exploitation among minors sheltered in the thirty own or concerted centers in the Balearic Islands.

As revealed by EL MUNDO, workers at a juvenile reintegration center in Mallorca knew that four intern boys were pimping the minors, which revealed the magnitude of the plot.

It became clear, then, that there was a serious problem in the protection of the most vulnerable.

But

.

And this, added to the inaction of the Armengol Executive, was what led the opposition to resort to the European Parliament.

The attitude of the Balearic president is very reminiscent of that of the Valencian vice president

.

The Prosecutor's Office yesterday supported the judge who asks for his

and the attempts from his Department to initially cover up such a monstrosity.

The Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament approved a year ago that a delegation meet, as it has done in the last two days in Mallorca, with experts, local governments, prosecutors, journalists, relatives of victims and victims.

It should be remembered that, in an exercise of

, the PSOE presented an allegation so that two of the mothers of the minors who denounced the abuses could not relate their version.

MEPs yesterday disfigured the Socialists for calling their mission "partisan."

The reality is that the Balearic Government did not want the community mission to be able to issue a complete report that would later force it to purge the

relevant.

It is embarrassing that some put Chinese to child protection to try to avoid any possible political sanction.

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