Name: Migrants leave Red Cross camp for island cliffside
Uploaded: 2021-03-12T20:35:16.000Z
Duration: 1 min 49 s
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More than sixty North African migrants are living in tents in the mountains of the Spanish island of Gran Canaria after abandoning a Red Cross center, which they say crammed dozens of them into squalid conditions.

About twenty three thousand migrants made the dangerous Atlantic crossing to the Canary Islands last year, nearly ten times the number from twenty nineteen.

Expecting a further influx, authorities began housing thousands in camps, drawing criticism from rights groups over inhumane conditions.

Now perched on a windswept cliff side near the city of Las Palmas, the makeshift camp has no access to running water and is dangerously exposed to the elements.

Two of them, who did not want to be named gave their account of the conditions the and and and I'm not well, they expelled us because we didn't accept sleeping in the same place with fifty other people and where Covid quarantine was taking place.

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Speaking to Reuters, a Red Cross spokesman disputed those claims, saying Quote.

We spoke with all the men involved, one by one, and encourage them not to abandon the center.

The Red Cross says they left of their own accord after objecting to being temporarily transferred to larger tents within the same site.

The men also complained of drug use and petty crime as well as the cramp conditions.

 The spokesman says the facilities comply with all sanitary standards. 

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