• Sexual exploitation.

    A 71-year-old man arrested for abusing vulnerable minors

  • Controversy.

    The PSOE tries to torpedo the investigation commission of the EU

The Balearic Parliament refuses to cede its premises to the delegation that the

European Parliament

will send to Mallorca in April to investigate on the ground the

scandal of sexual abuse of minors under guardianship

.

An issue that broke out two years ago after learning that underage girls who were under the guardianship of the public administration had suffered sexual abuse by adults, sometimes in exchange for money or drugs.

The regional chamber, chaired by the socialist

Vicenç Thomas

, has denied in writing the transfer of a room where members of the European Parliament delegation can carry out interrogations and interviews with local politicians.

Among them, that of the Balearic president

Francina Armengol (PSOE)

, who was summoned by the European mission for next Tuesday, April 12.

The community body that promotes this investigation mission, made up of

Brussels

politicians from different parties and with the active participation of PP, Vox and C's, demanded that the Parliament give it a space in the middle of last month to hold these meetings.

In the absence of a month, Thomàs has sent a letter in which he communicates his refusal to lend the premises of the legislative chamber for European work.

The reply letter hides behind the parliamentary table and says that

“the request cannot be met”

.

The official reason alleged by the president of the Chamber is that, being Tuesday, it is a day on which an ordinary plenary session is held and that, therefore, and according to "the rules of use of the rooms", it cannot be authorized the transfer for the celebration of acts at the same time.

The Balearic Parliament occupies a large three-storey building in the historic center of Palma and has a completely renovated adjoining office area.

In the document sent to Brussels, the Parliament also alleges that it does not have any "accrediting certification" from the European Parliament endorsing that delegation, which was approved by the Committee on Petitions.

In the background of these maneuvers beats a political pulse

.

The matter reached Brussels after the Balearic Parliament already denied two investigation commissions within it, with the refusal of the parties that govern the Islands (PSOE-Unidas Podemos and

Més

).

He landed in Europe through the request of two citizens (one of them previously linked to Vox).

At the end of last year, the Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament approved sending a mission after requesting - with little success - reports from the Government of Spain.

In recent weeks, the PSOE has made various

moves to limit the commission

, including demanding that interviews be omitted with two mothers of minors who, according to their complaints, have allegedly been victims of abuse and neglect while under guardianship.

The interview with the mothers is on the Brussels calendar.

The Socialists are also opposed to Armengol traveling to Parliament to testify before the commission, something that would take her to a territory that, on paper, is institutionally neutral and alien to the seat of her government.

The PSOE claims in Brussels that the entourage meet with Armengol

at the Government headquarters

, which would underpin its

story

that it is she who receives the commission and not the other way around.

From the political opposition in the Islands they interpret in the same sense the refusal now communicated to Brussels to cede rooms of the Parliament.

opposition criticism

Thomàs declared yesterday that it is the regulation that prevents them from providing facilities and said that the European commissions on other occasions go to hotels to hold their meetings.

Meanwhile, from the opposition they accuse the Parliament of breaking neutrality and bowing to the interests of the Government and its president, Francina Armengol.

"Armengol should facilitate the work of the European Parliament in its investigation into the sexual exploitation of protected minors," declared yesterday the deputy of the PP

Antoni Costa

, who maintains that there are spaces available in the Parliament.

«This is taking part, there has been some instruction;

We ask for transparency."

While the political fire crackles, the Police continue with their work.

A few days ago, he arrested three other people involved in an alleged network of

sexual exploitation of

protected minors in exchange for money and “accommodation”.

In one year there have been 20 arrests for events from 2018 and 2019.

The last detainee is 71 years old.

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