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Sunday, December 10, 2006
Of the thousand juvenile delinquents in the Canary Islands, less than one hundred are foreigners
There is a certain "rumbling" amongst the Canary Island public that "foreign youths come here and make trouble." There has, indeed, been a case at a south Tenerife school recently, where British kids seem to be causing plenty of it and, I can only assume that this headline sets out to put the matter into perspective.
La Opinión report that there are 1,015 minors that are serving some kind of sentence in the Canary Islands, but that only 96 of them (just eight in every hundred) are foreigners. More than half of these (56) are of Moroccan nationality.
They are followed by Columbians, though in much smaller number (only 13). In the last year also, five Venezuelan minors have been punished by the courts, three Chileans, two British, two English, two Portuguese and two Romanians. The other eleven are from Argentina, Bangladesh, Ecuador, France, Guinea, Ireland, Mali, Dominican Republic, Western Sahara, Ukrane and Uruguay.
There are 577 youths serving non-custodial, tutored, sentences (under probation) in the Canaries, while just 94 are serving custodial sentences for serious crimes.
De mil menores condenados en las Islas, menos de cien son extranjeros
