00:00Nearly a month on and the situation in Soweto remains tense.
00:04Around 80,000 people crossed illegally from Morocco into the Spanish enclave in July.
00:10Now Spain has declared Soweto a national security interest
00:14and is creating a new coordination body, bringing several authorities together.
00:19The goal? Manage the situation and ensure migrants can safely return to Morocco.
00:29The priority of the Spanish government is the return of the people.
00:32But we need to do it, taking into account, if we are speaking of minors, a family reunion
00:38and the due process according to international law.
00:45We have declared that in 2022 people were convicted of mishandling cases involving minors.
00:53So the priority is to return the minors and non-minors, but also within international law,
00:59respecting fundamental rights and humanitarian law.
01:02And also, in that organization, a figure of coordination, which is the functional authority,
01:09and that has fallen into the people who speak to you in the Ministry of Political Political and Democratic Memories.
01:16While most of the 80,000 people who crossed illegally have now returned to Morocco,
01:22around 5,000 remain in Soweto, among them an estimated 2,000 minors,
01:28leaving Spanish authorities facing a growing challenge over their care and return.
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