The Minister of the Inside, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, said this Thursday that the European border company, Frontex, already has officers engaged in “intelligence” work within the Canary Islands to deal with the arrival of migrants in cayucos, urging that now what they need to do is deploy in African nations reminiscent of Mauritania to work on the bottom preventively in opposition to the mafias.
“We perceive that this complement of Frontex could be very efficient within the nations of origin and transit, and Frontex has taken up the problem to conclude the agreements,” stated Grande-Marlaska in response to the press after the press convention reviewing the summer time highway accident charges.
Frontex’s govt director, Hans Leijtens, assured yesterday within the European Parliament that the company was ready for the request from the Spanish authorities to strengthen assist within the face of the migratory disaster within the Canary Islands, the place he famous that there’s a “structural enhance” in arrivals.
The Minister, nevertheless, emphasised that there already exists “important coordination” with Frontex for a very long time, additionally within the Canary Islands, the place officers of the European company repeatedly carry out duties reminiscent of taking statements from migrants arriving on the Spanish coasts.
“What we now have all the time defended is that the work carried out by the Guardia Civil and Nationwide Police in transit nations may also be carried out by Frontex, that they’ve state agreements with these nations in order that they will work immediately there in these prevention and battle in opposition to irregular immigration duties,” he said.
Grande-Marlaska maintained that Spain already has “ample and efficient means within the Canary Islands to handle irregular immigration and likewise in transit nations,” referring to African nations reminiscent of Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Niger, or Mali the place police and civil guards are deployed. “This isn’t solely a place of Spain however of EU nations, inside the coverage of preventing irregular immigration, that Frontex concludes these agreements with third nations to battle irregular immigration on the bottom, as probably the most direct and efficient approach,” Grande-Marlaska insisted.
