An individual yesterday threw a grenade into the garden of the center of foreign minors of Hortaleza indicated by Vox in the last electoral campaign as a focus of insecurity in the neighborhood because of the menas (unaccompanied foreign minors). The device, from Eastern Europe, did not explode and was discovered in a plastic bag at 08.45 a.m. by one of the center's security workers, who immediately notified the police.
Around 11.00, he was detonated by the Specialist Technicians in Disabling Explosive Artifacts (Tedax) of the Police. The agents suspect that the grenade was thrown by someone with military ties, although they also investigate whether any member belonging to any Latin band could be behind the attack, since the agents have confiscated these types of gadgets to these gang members in several raids.
On October 30, a group of members of the Dominicans Don't Play (DDP) band attacked the juvenile center after one of them was assaulted by a minor Maghreb in the vicinity of a sports court. A young Dominican was arrested in that incident.
Also, the agents disconnect, for the moment, from this event a young man who was hospitalized in the center for a long time and who was present yesterday early in the morning at the door of the enclosure. This person was expelled by the vigilante team. One of the residents explained yesterday that before leaving he made a threatening shout.
Investigators also ruled out that before the launch of the grenade, the center had received an anonymous call warning of the placement of an explosive device.
The first agents who arrived at the juvenile center early yesterday morning proved that it was an explosive device and ordered all residents to be transferred to an area to preserve their safety.
Then came the canine and effective guides of the Tedax. After examining the grenade, they decided to make a controlled detonation of the device. This had been released without removing the ring retention device, so it did not explode. Agents confined all residents inside the building and closed the entrance and exit of the facilities for the detonation of the device. This is a gadget that comes from Eastern Europe, which is not officially sold in Spain to armed forces and that can be acquired in the second-hand market, according to police sources.
However, Tedax teams took the remains of the device to analyze its composition. Agents are also checking the security cameras in the area to try to find out the identity of the person who threw the grenade into the enclosure inside a bag.
The educational team of the center of first reception of minors of Hortaleza said yesterday in a statement that this fact “cannot be considered something isolated from the prolonged and unsustainable situation of the center that has been supporting a massification of adolescents and young people for four years and that they have created measures that in sight have been insufficient ». They also added that «they live around 100 children in a space designed for 35 and with an educational project for 35 adolescents of both sexes and indifferent of their geographical origin». They assured that “young people with different mental, behavioral pathologies, toxic dependencies and other risk problems are mixed in the enclosure, to which there is to be joined by the presence of former adult residents who wander around the area when they reach the age of majority and not have another means of welcoming and being our center your only reference ».
Some of the residents of the reception center expressed their outrage after the incident. "We feel a little unprotected, to be without a father, without a mother, in a children's center and put a bomb ...," said Elena, a young Dominican resident who will be of age in a few months.
«We have been very afraid. They have evacuated us and, afterwards, we have heard the explosion with a very loud sound, ”added another of these residents of the Maghreb nationality.
The Minister of Social Policies, Families and Birth, Alberto Reyero, went to the center of Hortaleza after knowing the incident, although, after condemning what happened, he avoided making assessments.
Who did it was the acting Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who linked the discovery of the grenade with hate speech and xenophobes, "which are the prelude to more serious events." "We will have in front all those who practice hate speech," he said.
The spokeswoman for Vox at the Madrid Assembly, Rocío Monasterio, went to the Hortaleza first reception center in October to denounce the insecurity problems suffered by neighborhood residents, who are unaframed by unaccompanied foreign minors, she said.
The formation of Santiago Abascal in Madrid, meanwhile, criticized through a statement that "some formations use such serious events" to "attack" their spokesman at the Madrid Assembly.
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