"In Europe we are treated like animals because we scare"

In the Center for the detention of foreigners (ICD) from Barranco Seco, Gran Canaria, have enabled the dining room to the immigrants who arrived last week to a beach of Maspalomas (Gran Canaria) can tell his odyssey. It is a cold room, with tables and elongated banks at his feet. It is reached by a long corridor, prison aspect, however, he was the center was a former prison. Since that stay have what he has experienced the past November 5 , when remained lying in the sun on the sand during five hours without being cared for by fear that any of them could have been infected with Ebola. "It seemed that the, be fearful, why do we deal with in Europe as animals? ", says one of them with their eyes wide open. To its side, the companions of voyage seated resigned.

Vicky explains that when he came out of there heading to Europe had not yet reached the disease. And by the way spent two years in Morocco before stepping onto the patera path of Spain. Arrived to Gran Canaria and is now in the ICE without believing that the van to repatriate: "They say we are going to eject, but to my other Africans who have been did not speak to me from this prison," he says.

In the revision that passed the medical returned to meet with masks although none had fever or symptoms of disease, such as was written in the previous reviews. The judge that it took them declaration in San Bartolomé de Tirajana, met through a window, to six meters away. This pregnant and feared catching, distrustful of official information.

The Detention Center of Barranco Seco has an index of expulsion relatively low, after the maximum period of stay legal, that is 60 days. Only a quarter of those who arrive (26.4 %, according to police sources) are sent back to their countries. Another judge, which protects the CIE, Victoria Rosell, requests reflect on "whether that percentage less than 30% of expulsions effective makes necessary the deprivation of liberty or if in many cases can be avoided".