A journal investigation’Guardian‘ has brought to light the alleged kidnapping dozens of minors seeking asylum staying at a hotel run by the UK Home Office in Brighton, UK. According to the aforementioned media, these children would fall into the hands of criminal gangswhich would be repeating this pattern along the southern coast of the country.
‘The Guardian’ cites a worker from the Mitie company, subcontracted by the Interior and sources from the child protection services, who have reported the kidnapping of minors in the middle of the street and how they were introduced into cars. “The minors are literally kidnapped in front of the building. They disappear and are never found again.. the traffickers they take them in the street“, explained the source.
In addition, the newspaper also reveals that the Police would have repeatedly notified the Ministry that these vulnerable children – newcomers to the country without parents or guardians – would be targeted by criminal networks.
In total, always according to this journalistic investigation, some 600 unaccompanied minors have passed through the Sussex hotel in the last 18 months and 136 disappearances have been reported. More than half of the missing children, 79, still not appearing.
Mitie’s source has further described how he witnessed the child abduction from a similar hotel in Hythe, Kentalso managed by the Ministry of the Interior, and estimates that 10% of minors disappear every week.
Criticism of the opposition to the Government
The spokesperson for the Interior Labor PartyYvette Cooper, has called the news “truly horrific and scandalous” and has urged the Rishi Sunak Executive to report how many minors have disappeared and what it is doing to find them.
In addition, it has made ugly the Minister of the Interior, Suella Braverman, her inaction in the face of “repeated warnings” on “absolutely inadequate protections in the care of minors in their care”. “It is utter negligence of the duties of the Ministry of the Interior, a colossal failure to protect the safety of minors or the persecution of dangerous gangs that put them at terrible risk”, he added.
Official data estimates that unaccompanied minors spend an average of 16.5 days in the hotels of the Ministry of the Interior before being cared for by the municipal social services of town halls throughout the country.
Source: Lasexta
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