President Armengol has confirmed the refugees' arrival, describing them as "victims of the Syrian conflict", and adding that eighty more refugees will be coming to Majorca. The president yesterday criticised the "slowness" of the European Union in taking care of refugees, observing that instead of "a bridge between cultures" being built there is a "mass grave" of people losing their lives on account of a lack of sensitivity by governmental institutions.
Fina Santiago, the minister for social services and cooperation, noted that the Balearics had been one of the first communities to offer shelter to refugees from Syria. That they will now be coming is, she suggested, because the regional government has done what it had to do. This was to adapt the hostel to meet requirements of up to 56 places for refugees.
The eight men will add to the three members of an Albanian family - a couple and a five-year-old - who were the first refugees to come to Majorca. "This shows we are a land of welcome," said the minister, adding that there are six others currently in the hostel who since April have sought asylum in Spain. All adults, they are from Venezuela, Ethiopia, Senegal and the Ukraine.
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I thought the object of this plan was to integrate families, or women and vulnerable children. I think allowing the entry of single men as refugees from countries we are at war with could be positively dangerous.
Ignore the negative comments here, I think Mallorca needs 8 economic male migrants who cant speak Spanish/English or German. They will probsbly still give better hospitality service than the locals!
Don't worry ! when they get there status as eu citizens they will make a bee line straight for the uk where they will get free housing nhs social and anything else that our own people can't have and join the other terrorists that are already here
Well,those 88 refugees will receive a warmer welcome than the millions of tourists will.