Hours after stopping a Moroccan boy for the alleged violation of another teenager in a park in Hortaleza, a new alert in the district has mobilized the police. The assault on three migrants with a minors center this Sunday night reactivated alarms, and now arouses reactions of all kinds from the political or public sphere. The Government Delegation in the Community of Madrid has linked both events and linked to its protagonists with the first reception shelter, although the a priori agents do not confirm that aggressors or attacked belong to the facilities.
The suspect of the first attack, whose victim is a 14 -year -old girl, remains detained while the investigation continues. However, those who perpetrated the triple aggression last night have not yet been identified. The Government Delegate, Francisco Martín, reported on Monday of the facts and launched a warning: the “criminalization” and the “hate speech” that, in his opinion, derive in situations such as the one that was lived tonight should not be instigated. Unlike the National Police, Martín has linked the young man arrested with the Center for Children of Hortaleza. In addition, he has asked to investigate the reasons that led him to be out of the facilities at that time.
The authorities now seek two hooded men and investigate the complaint for violation. One of the three beested young people had to be transferred to the hospital: police sources indicate that one of them was of legal age, although the rest did not reach 18. However, the concatenation of facts has put in the spotlight to the residential space, dependent on the Ministry of Family, Youth and Social Affairs.
For the second case some details were offered. The events occurred after 22.00, when some hooded “assaulted and beat” – in the words of the delegate – to migrant minors in the vicinity of the center. At the moment there are no detainees and the young man who had been transferred to the San Carlos Clinical Hospital was able to return to the center in Hortaleza. The regional president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, published in her account of X the news of Okdiario That he advanced the first aggression and alluded to migrants as an “increasingly aggressive” group, pointing to Pedro Sánchez's executive as responsible for “multiplying his arrival.” Moreover, his housing counselor, transport and infrastructure, Jorge Rodrigo, has joined the criticism and has lashed directly at the Government delegate, which he asks “not throwing balls out” and processing the 37 family regrouping files requested by Ayuso, which would repatriate these minors.
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, has condemned the violation and also the aggressions to the minors who have taken place later: “It is inadmissible and unacceptable in an open city like Madrid,” he said at the same time that he has blamed Vox and the president of the Government for “paying radicalization.” “They have to be aware that consequences can be derived as unfortunate as those that have occurred in that center of minors. Those who live from radicality and radicalization, and I am not talking about me only of Vox, but I am also talking about the Government of Spain and its partners, they have to be aware of what can be produced,” he said in his first statements to the media after his low paternity.
Almeida has requested a “public, calm, serene, without priori or disqualifications” debate about immigration, while accused of trying to deny it. “We are favorable, without a doubt, immigration. Immigration has done much good to Spain throughout the last decades, but it is obvious that the policy of goodism and open doors policies is not a solution to immigration and the concern” of a debate that ensures “worries much of society.”
Other recent accusations to the Hortaleza Children's Center
Vox, who for a long time has this center of minors in the sight, has also launched to the controversy: its municipal spokesman, José Ortega Smith, will move to the facilities at noon. From more Madrid they have also positioned themselves about it. Manuela Bergerot, whom this morning asked about what happened, took the opportunity to denounce “all sexist violence regardless of the nationality of the aggressor”, referring to the violation denounced in the first instance. But parallel said his “concern” for what he considers an “escalation in speeches and verbal violence” regarding migrants, pointing in this case towards the PP and Vox.
In the last Security Council of the district of Hortaleza, which was held in June, the latter again indicated the center of minors as one of the great danger focuses in the district. Several months before, in November 2024, the same party brought a controversial question to the Plenary of the District. They wanted prohibit the guards who could sit in the canopy that are in front of the building Because, supposedly, they generated problems. The first proposal was rejected and in the second case, this summer, one of the agents of the municipal police present at the meeting denied that the shelter sponsored the insecurity of the area.
In this sense, the Government delegate recalled this morning that this year there have been 256 violations throughout the city of Madrid. “But we have only heard some of them interested in one,” he slid in his press conference, directly referring to a strategy that, in his opinion, “feeds some hate speeches against migrants.” “The main thing is the victims, and the main thing is to address the causes behind that increase in sexual violence to also improve, not only prevention, but the response to these situations. The fact is an aberration, has all our repulsion and I want to congratulate the National Police because in an immediate way it proceeded to arrest the alleged author,” Marín said.
