The Diplomat
Ceuta Court of First Instance and Preliminary Investigation 2 yesterday refused to suspend as a precautionary measure the repatriation to Morocco of seven unaccompanied foreign minors, on the grounds that the expulsions had already taken place at the time of receiving the request for suspension.
The request had been made by the Asociación Coordinadora de Barrios para el Seguimiento de Menores y Jóvenes, with the support of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, in view of the decision of the Ministry of the Interior to proceed with the return of the Moroccan minors who had been in Ceuta since the May avalanche into the autonomous city.
The judge of the Court refers in the legal reasoning of her resolution, in which she does not go into the background of whether or not the Interior is complying with all the legal requirements to return the minors to Morocco, that “in the present case, as it results from the proceedings, the minors who were under the guardianship of the Autonomous City of Ceuta, which has competence in matters of protection, have been repatriated on the basis of the provisions of the Agreement between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Morocco of 2007.
