In Dosrius they converted the youth hostel into a centre for unaccompanied minors and now they live in fear.
Mas Silvestre went from hosting young Catalans on holiday to hosting foreign minors. Now they have knife attacks and sexual assaults.
Mas Silvestre Hostel of Dosrius
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In 2017 the Dosrius Town Council decided to change the use of the municipal youth hostel to accommodate Unaccompanied Foreign Minors (UFM). It is now calling for solutions because some of the minors housed there have been involved in serious incidents in the town: they steal from local young people, intimidate them and have groped local girls.
Organised neighbours
Explain The Vanguard that for the past few weeks, The residents of Dosrius have begun sending dozens of petitions and collecting signatures. There have been many incidents, but outrage has grown over the recent incidents involving three minors in care., all of them of Maghreb origin (Moroccans and Algerians)
According to the complaint filed, On 30 April, three of these young immigrants housed at Mas Silvestre attempted to rob three children aged between 11 and 13 of their mobile phones with a knife in broad daylight in a public park.. One of the victims, also underage, They allegedly groped him and at all times displayed an intimidating and violent attitude.. The events have triggered the protests and have generated «a lot of anguish among young people who are afraid of living on the streets In a town of 6,000 inhabitants that should be peaceful and safe. The fact that minors were attacked was the trigger that prompted the town council to take action.
The Dosrius town council is calling on the Generalitat to intervene.
The residents' organisation has succeeded in getting the council to act: He has asked the Generalitat to intervene and find solutions.. The council acknowledges that Mas Silvestre is a constant source of problems and has requested that the three minors involved in the incidents be relocated and that measures be taken to prevent any further incidents. The council acknowledges that it can do nothing except ask for tighter supervision of the minors.
The DGAIA has accepted and He has taken the three young Maghrebis to another centre where he says they will be better supervised.. This public body manages the lives of immigrant minors under its care and subcontracts the service. This makes the accommodation of minors a more lucrative business than running a youth hostel.
They say there are no problems but they will make changes.
In addition to transferring the three most violent minors to another centre, DGAIA has announced other measures to reassure the public, although they maintain that there are no serious problems. They point out that The number of places at the facility will be reduced and the team of monitors will be strengthened.. The town's mayor, Silvia Garrido, admits to La Vanguardia that she has spoken many times with the managers of Mas Silvestre to demand tighter controls on minors. The response she receives from the centre is that «they are overwhelmed.».
The mayor also explains to La Vanguardia that The 50 minors in care housed at the hostel are “a constant source of problems for the local police.”, which is often forced to intervene in incidents involving the same young people, such as petty theft, anti-social behaviour and “frequent runaways and escapes”.
The head of the Mossos d'Esquadra police in the county also explains that The operations at the centre are constant and they have had to modify protocols and dedicate more patrols.. He admits that they have reported it to the centre's management but that they can do nothing. He also admits that the problems depend heavily on the young people's background: The problem is the North Africans.. This police officer and other insiders explain that the majority of the young people are sub-Saharan, but that The ones who cause conflicts are the Moroccans and the Algerians.: for its culture They tend to reject and more often confront the authority of female monitors..
Sexual assault on Centre worker
The most serious case exposed by the head of the Mossos in the Maresme is “éIt is a sexual assault on one of the monitors.”When one of the minors with psychiatric disorders groped her and made sexually harassing remarks to her. The problem is that in these situations there is no protocol and judges only act in very serious cases.".
One of the aspects highlighted by those familiar with the situation is “the youth of the monitors, a factor they consider does not favour coexistence. In Dosrius they argue that if a centre is to be maintained in the middle of the mountain, several kilometres from the town centre, more experienced monitors would be needed. A demand that is difficult to fulfil, they add., “taking into account the low salaries these professionals receive”.
From great business to great problem
Dosrius opted to swap young holidaymakers for foreign minors in care becauseThis represents a constant source of income guaranteed by the administration.The Generalitat pays up to €60,000 per place and guarantees a constant occupancy rate of 100%.
Recurring conflicts, a lack of adequate resources and growing social tension have left the municipality in a difficult situation: They now feel trapped in a model that they can no longer sustain or easily reverse..
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