Several migrant girls who left accommodation centres in Ceuta after reporting insults and threats of rape are now sleeping on the street, information from statements cited by SER. Spanish prosecutors are examining specific complaints of abuse and degrading treatment involving minors in the autonomous city. The cases have placed the centres under formal scrutiny, but the Fiscalía has not described the situation as generalised.
The immediate problem: 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 humiliated and beaten.
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 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 yet to produce 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. Reports also said that some minors were removed from the specific facility concerned while protection measures were considered.
The allegations so raise an immediate protection issue alongside concerns about conditions inside one institution.
The allegations emerged as Ceuta’s child-protection system faced exceptional pressure after a mass arrival of minors. Democrata and other independent reports estimated that between 700 and 1,000 minors were still on the streets; the figure is an estimate, not 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. Authorities are examining specific complaints while rejecting claims 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. The reported suspensions have not been confirmed as an official finding.
Testimony from the neighbourhood shows the immediate stakes. 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.
Prosecutors are examining allegations made by specific young people, and 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, authorities must keep minors away from alleged mistreatment without leaving them on the street.
