Refugee and Migrant Children Are Vanishing Throughout Europe
The German government has confirmed what many human rights groups had feared: that over 6,000 refugee children have gone missing over the past year. A spokesperson for the Interior Ministry added that the number of children missing is almost certainly higher than the current estimate.
▻http://www.care2.com/causes/refugee-and-migrant-children-are-vanishing-throughout-europe.html
Commentaire via la mailing-list Migreurop :
We should be carefull concerning these reports about missing migrant children, “human trafficking and criminal gangs”, which mostly come from police sources. The reality in Germany is more like this:
– Already for a long time, (young) migrants who are controlled maybe in Hamburg or on the way, originally wanted to go to Scandinavia or decide to do it later, and some of them just “disappear” after some time to continue their way and join relatives or friends e.g. in Sweden.
– During summer 2015, many refugees, among them many unaccompanied minors, came to Germany, the registration and fingerprinting system did not really work and/or the migrants were sent to different places, where they did not want to stay – so they just travelled to other places (cities or countries) and sometimes registered again with other names or even with the same name, but no fingerprints were taken before.
– Since November 2015, unaccompanied minors are being distributed all over Germany and cannot stay (like before) where they arrived, but many of them do not want to go to these other places, often in the East of Germany, where many Nazis threaten refugees, and so they go somewhere else – sometimes to friends or relatives, but often it is even possible to apply for asylum in another city, because this was not yet done in the first place.
I do not want to say that there is no reason to look more after these kids and take care of them, but not for all it is a problem of “criminal gangs” etc., but more of the German asylum system and the arbitrary distribution of even minor refugees all around the country!
