The DGAIA stops the center for 'menas' of the Free Trade Zone.

"Administrative and legal problems", according to the Generalitat, prevent opening the service of immediate attention.

The immediate attention center (CAI) that was to start operating at the end of June, in the Free Trade Zone, to prevent unaccompanied migrant children from having to spend the night in the Mossos police stations when they arrive in Catalonia, will have to wait. The secretary of Infància, Adolescència i Joventut of the Generalitat, Georgina Oliva, informed yesterday to neighborhood entities and merchants of the Marina neighborhood that, due to "legal and administrative problems", the new infrastructure can not be installed in the lands planned of the Zona Franca, near the Ciutat de la Justícia, within the period that had been announced.

DGAIA stop Free Trade Zone center opening

Oliva reported two months ago that the general direction of Atenció a la Infància i l'Adolescència (DGAIA) was finalizing the details to locate, on a site in the Free Trade Zone, the prefabricated modules that would accommodate the children for a maximum of 24 hours. and adolescent migrants. But, as explained at yesterday's meeting, which also involved the manager of the Municipal Institute of Social Services of Barcelona, ​​Jordi Sanchez, the site "technically" is owned by the Consortium of the Free Zone, which must be transferred to the City Council and this to the Generalitat. Some procedures that have not been completed and therefore the CAI in the Free Trade Zone, the most convenient site, will not see the light in the short or medium term.

The site that was to house the CAI has not yet been transferred to the Generalitat, said yesterday to the neighbors

Navy entities had expressed their complaints about not knowing the project firsthand, but Oliva stressed, in yesterday's meeting, that the opposition of some neighbors to the location of the CAI next to their neighborhood has not had anything to do with these changes of plans.

To try to avoid that the story of last summer is repeated, that the images of minors sleeping in banks of police stations again run like wildfire, the DGAIA announced a plan B, open a temporary center outside Barcelona in the coming weeks . In parallel, it is planned to launch another CAI in the capital within a few months.

The Catalan strategy for unaccompanied migrant minors, presented at the beginning of the year, establishes the creation of this type of service in order to offer immediate attention to these children and adolescents when they arrive in Catalonia. In this center, managed by two social workers and two social integrators 24 hours a day, a couple of Mossos will make the identification of each person, a process that until now is being done in the police stations of the autonomic police.

The procedures that can not be executed in the CAI, such as the age tests, will be carried out in the Ciutat de la Justícia. That is why it is considered that the Free Zone, close to these dependencies judicial, is the most convenient location.

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