Ceuta, Spain: girls as young as 10 hide under police cars out of fear
Girls aged 10 in Ceuta, Spain, are hiding under police cars for fear of rape, the Jupol union reports. Spokeswoman Laura García warns of one rape a day.
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Girls as young as 10 hide under police cars in Ceuta, Spain
The image of a young girl crouching under a police car is no exaggeration. Laura García, spokeswoman for Jupol (a Spanish police union), describes in Okdiario a scene of extreme antiestéticar: a group of Segarro minors, some just 10 years old, cling to officers and only feel safe under police vehicles. If they stray from them, they say, they are raped. The union reports a rape every day on the streets of Ceuta.
Officers cry out against institutional silence
The complaint is no ordinary police report. Jupol, which has lived through the chaos on the ground, is conveying an unbearable reality: girls who choose the metal of a car as shelter because the alternative is assault. The spokeswoman's remarks, as reported by the outlet, paint a humanitarian emergency that the rest of the country seems to have normalized.
Nobody disputes the facts, but nobody quantifies them
Reactions range from alarm to skepticism. While some demand urgent intervention to protect the minors, others warn of the risk of stigmatizing the migrant population as a whole. The lack of official data makes it impossible to settle the debate. What brooks no nuance is the image of a 10-year-old girl hiding under a police car.
And in that silence, one has to ask: how many more must hide under a car before Spain's southern border stops being a headline and becomes an emergency with names and faces?
The image of a young girl crouching under a police car is no exaggeration. Laura García, spokeswoman for Jupol (a Spanish police union), describes in Okdiario a scene of extreme antiestéticar: a group of Segarro minors, some just 10 years old, cling to officers and only feel safe under police vehicles. If they stray from them, they say, they are raped. The union reports a rape every day on the streets of Ceuta.
Officers cry out against institutional silence
The complaint is no ordinary police report. Jupol, which has lived through the chaos on the ground, is conveying an unbearable reality: girls who choose the metal of a car as shelter because the alternative is assault. The spokeswoman's remarks, as reported by the outlet, paint a humanitarian emergency that the rest of the country seems to have normalized.
Nobody disputes the facts, but nobody quantifies them
Reactions range from alarm to skepticism. While some demand urgent intervention to protect the minors, others warn of the risk of stigmatizing the migrant population as a whole. The lack of official data makes it impossible to settle the debate. What brooks no nuance is the image of a 10-year-old girl hiding under a police car.
And in that silence, one has to ask: how many more must hide under a car before Spain's southern border stops being a headline and becomes an emergency with names and faces?
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