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A journalistic investigation uncovers dozens of kidnappings of minor asylum seekers in the United Kingdom

MADRID, 22 Ene.

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A journalistic investigation uncovers dozens of kidnappings of minor asylum seekers in the United Kingdom

MADRID, 22 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A journalistic investigation by the newspaper 'The Guardian' has uncovered the alleged kidnapping of dozens of asylum-seeking minors staying at a Brighton hotel managed by the Ministry of the Interior and who fall into the hands of criminal gangs. These facts seem to be repeated in other facilities in the south of England.

A worker from the Mitie company, subcontracted by the Ministry of the Interior, and sources from the child protection services have reported the kidnapping of minors in the middle of the street who were put into cars.

"The minors are literally kidnapped in front of the building. They disappear and are never found again. The traffickers take them in the middle of the street," the source explained.

The Police have repeatedly warned the Ministry of the Interior of how vulnerable these minors staying at the hotel are after arriving in the United Kingdom without any type of protection against criminal networks.

Some 600 unaccompanied minors have passed through the Sussex hotel in the last 18 months and 136 have been reported missing. More than half, 79, still do not appear.

Mitie's source has described how he personally saw children being taken from a similar hotel in Hythe, Kent, run by the Home Office, and estimates that 10 per cent of children go missing every week.

The spokesperson for the Interior of the Labor Party - in opposition -, Yvette Cooper, has described the news as "truly horrific and scandalous" and has asked the Government to report how many minors have disappeared and what it is doing to find them.

The Minister of the Interior, "Suella Braverman, has failed despite the repeated warnings that she has been given about the absolutely inadequate protections in the care of minors," Cooper pointed out.

"It is an absolute negligence of the duties of the Ministry of the Interior, a colossal failure in the protection of 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.