Spanish prosecutors are examining complaints from migrant minors in Ceuta. Several girls report insults, threats of rape and degrading treatment, while some who fled the centres are still sleeping on the street.
Several migrant girls who left accommodation centres in Ceuta after reporting insults and threats of rape are now sleeping on the street, according to statements cited by SER. Spanish prosecutors are examining specific complaints of abuse and degrading treatment involving minors in the autonomous city. The cases have put the centres under formal scrutiny, but the Fiscalía has not described the situation as generalised.
The immediate problem is simple. The girls do not want to return to the facilities. Ahmed Efen-Dal, president of the Asociación de Vecinos del Príncipe, told SER correspondent Julia Molina that girls had approached him after leaving centres where they said they had been treated badly, humiliated and beaten.
The Fiscalía has sent several complaints by migrant minors to a judge for examination, while stressing that this does not amount to an investigation of every reception centre in Ceuta.
The accounts became public after El País and eldiario.es reported cases involving girls who alleged violence and degrading treatment at a centre for minors. After those reports, Fiscalía sources confirmed that some individual cases were being examined. Protection proceedings were opened in certain instances. EFE later reported that several complaints had been formally referred to a judge. That step concerns the reported incidents, not the entire network of centres.
For the girls involved, the proceedings have not yet produced a safe alternative.
Efen-Dal said the girls he had spoken with were still sleeping on the street. They told him they would go to another facility if one became available, but would not return to the centre where they had been staying. The reports also said that some minors were removed from the specific facility concerned while protection measures were considered.
That makes the allegations an immediate protection issue, not only a dispute over conditions inside one institution.
The allegations emerged as Ceuta’s child-protection system faced exceptional pressure after a mass arrival of minors. Independent reports estimated that between 700 and 1,000 minors were still on the streets, although the figure is reported as an estimate rather than a judicially established count.
The Fiscalía has stressed that the complaints concern particular cases. They do not establish that every centre for migrant minors in Ceuta is affected. The distinction matters. Authorities are examining concrete complaints while rejecting any claim that the entire system is uniformly abusive.
Media reports have also said that at least two security guards and one educator were identified and suspended. That detail has not been presented here as an independently confirmed official finding.
The testimony from the neighbourhood shows what is at stake. A minor who leaves a centre because of alleged mistreatment and then sleeps outdoors remains exposed while authorities assess the case. Opening protection files does not change the reported fact that some girls still lack a placement they consider safe.
The case comes as Ceuta's migrant reception system faces wider pressure. Earlier reporting has shown how sharply estimates of the migrant population in the city can differ, including figures for unaccompanied minors. That dispute is separate from the allegations now under examination. It also helps explain why accommodation and protection remain central to the city's migration debate.
Reports from El Constitucional and other outlets say responsibility for the guardianship of minors rests with the Ceuta administration. State support has been requested because officials describe the situation as exceptional.
The evidence supports a narrow conclusion. Prosecutors are examining allegations made by specific young people. Protection proceedings have begun in some cases. At least the girls described by Efen-Dal are reportedly still outside the centres. Until the cases are resolved, the basic test is whether minors can be kept away from alleged mistreatment without leaving them on the street.
