The Police release 220 immigrants from the Arguineguín pier without PCR and without the authorization of the Interior

• Canary Islands. 584 people rescued aboard dozens of boats

The

has released this afternoon at

in emergency camp pier A

before the collapse suffered by

the precinct run by

They have been removed from the facilities

and

taking their fingerprints due to the saturation that the port is experiencing in the face of the avalanche of cayucos that have arrived on the island.

This decision has been taken without the authorization of the Interior and by order of the police officers in the Canary Islands.

Neither the minister nor the secretary of state knew that such a measure was going to be taken, which this afternoon has caused great anger and confusion in

team

Nor have the mayor of

been notified,

who has shown her anger at these events.

"When the minister found out, it happened that the Chief Operating Officer of the Police was traveling to the Canary Islands and nobody has been able to give an explanation of what was happening," ministerial sources said.

"The people who have left the Arguineguín dock today have not been referred as usual to the reception system as a punctual solution to the high occupancy of the facilities. The procedures are being carried out to relocate them in the reception system," says the Ministry of the Interior about what happened.

The department that

assures that "the order has been given so that the pertinent procedures are carried out to know the details that have given rise to this situation."

The freed immigrants are wandering through the center of the town tonight without a place to spend the night or to go.

"We do not have where to go", "we do not know where we will spend the night," several of them have confessed to Efe, while asking for the favor of allowing them to call their relatives (some in Spain) to notify them that they had caught a patera , that they are already in the Canary Islands and that, in their case, they are well.

The immigrants confessed that they had been in Arguineguín for five days, that they had only eaten once this Tuesday and that no one had been able to shower in the last fifteen days.

When the local authorities found out this afternoon that 220 immigrants were leaving the center, they were ordered to provide them with transport to the capital.

Mogán's Security Councilor,

explained that the Consistory has decided to provide them with transportation, specifically to the Plaza de la Feria, in whose vicinity are the

"They were left in front of the Government Delegation and that decision is not accidental," said several of those present.

The mayor of Mogán,

has been very annoyed by the lack of information from the Government Delegation and has regretted that this group of immigrants "has been put on the street without any resources."

Bueno has complained on the same dock that no one gave her an explanation in the Government Delegation and has regretted that it was she who had informed the President of the Canary Islands,

of the situation that was taking place.

"We have been denouncing that this is not the ideal place for immigrants and the Government of Spain has to react by looking for alternative facilities that do not exist today," the councilor reiterated.

The Arguineguín camp began this Tuesday with more than 2,000 people sheltered in precarious conditions at its facilities, while the Maritime Rescue boats continued to bring new rescued to the port (more than 500, until this afternoon).

This has aggravated the overcrowding conditions that organizations such as

the Government of the Canary Islands, the

de Gran Canaria, the Mogán City Council or the judge who oversees

the Island's

denouncing for a long time.

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