Municipality promotes today press conference on displaced migrants.
Concerned about the growing number of displaced migrants in Serpa, the mayor, JoĂŁo Efigenio Palma, summoned to the 15,30 this monday a press conference, where you will talk about the growing number of displaced migrants in Serpa.
The meeting is scheduled for the Sessions Room of the municipality of Serpa and the mayor will explain the various situations in which the mayor has intervened to temporarily resettle several groups of migrants.
On your website, the Municipality of Serpa revealed on Friday that “it is a situation that is worrying the Executive, since almost daily, there are new cases of people living on the street”, justifying that although “there are those migrants who still persist in the place where they were temporarily housed”.
It is recalled that last day 24 August, and following an inspection of the conditions experienced by Timorese migrants, in the parish of Pias, the municipality relocated, Authorization to purchase conventional food, a group at the request of Social Security “until the responsible entities found a solution”, justifying the city council that “since then, various groups of people have been identified by the authorities in order to be resettled”.
The Municipality of Serpa also revealed that on the last day 21 of September, addressed a letter to the President of the Republic, to the Prime Minister and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, of the Internal Administration, Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, referring to “the seriousness of the situation if social emergency that exists in the municipality”. The municipality argues that “rapid political intervention is necessary, agreement with the Timorese authorities and the definition of norms that impose a clear obligation of accommodation on employers of migrant workers”, summarize.
Remember that within one month, 92 Timorese citizens were removed or expelled from the houses where they would see, being that in addition to the 24 in the municipality of Serpa, more 68 were forced to abandon their homes in the town of Cabeça Gorda, in Beja county.
Another case in the municipality of Serpa with Indians
About six dozen illegal Indian citizens in national territory, were exploited with slave labor in the agricultural fields of the municipality of Serpa, put to live in undignified conditions and in personal suffering and subjected to threats, physical and psychological aggression.
Because the crimes in question constituted human trafficking, aid to illegal immigration and criminal association, inspectors from the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) detiveram Gurjit Singh, of 34 year old, and Amandeep Singh, of 28 year old, who are in custody in Prison Beja. The case will be judged shortly at the Beja Court.
“José do Casarão”, the eternal tenant
José Horta is the individual who rents houses for the placement of immigrant workers, Serpa, Beja and other locations. In this case, he appears as a witness for the prosecution.. No "Bamboo Rope" process, was one of 26 detainees from the PJ operation. Thirteen of these defendants, judged in April 2018, for trafficking in human beings and criminal association, were sentenced to effective prison terms between the ages of six and 16 year old. “José do Casarão” was one of the acquitted.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
