Tempers Flare in immigrant Retention Center

La Opinión report on the incidents which took place on Wednesday, at the immigrant internment center at Las Raíces in the north of Tenerife, when there was "a confrontation" between the army and the National Police. Minister of Justice, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Thursday, launched a message urging tranquility.

Who knows what went on exactly? According to the La Opinión report, one version is that the army wanted to fumigate one of the large cabins in which the immigrants are housed, believing it to be unoccupied. Another says that it started when the police wanted to accommodate immigrants in a cabin, in which soldiers were sleeping.

Sounds to me like "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand ...", but it easy easy to criticize, when you are not there, attempting to manage and control a situation with so many people and probably very few resources.

López Aguilar rechaza la alarma social en las incidencias con los inmigrantes
Alarma política por los incidentes en Las Raíces

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