A new facility set up in Ceuta to accommodate Moroccan minors

The arrival of thousands of migrants in Ceuta last week forced the Spanish enclave to set up several centers to welcome minors. The Civil Protection and the city's army are preparing, Monday, a second warehouse in Tarajal to accommodate 300 unaccompanied minors, reports El Faro de Ceuta.

For the moment, the city has three facilities, underlines the same source, citing a first warehouse in Tarajal, already set up to accommodate Moroccans stranded in the city and migrants having to observe sanitary confinement, as well as the Santa Amelia pavilion. The new warehouse in Tarajal will be added to the three existing facilities which already accommodate minors. In principle, it will house around 300 of the 792 already identified, the same source added. 

The army and Civil Protection have already worked since this morning on transforming this warehouse into a shelter. In addition to these four sites, the city is also preparing an esplanade in the port, ready to also welcome minors who have arrived in the city in recent days.

Spanish media pointed out last week the worrying situation of minors in Ceuta, reporting that minors wandered the streets of the city without money or food and sometimes had to sleep in parks or abandoned factories.