The shadow of corruption around the management of social quorum 77 has strengthened with the advances of the investigation of the Canarian Police. The agents arrested the president of the entity, which is the main NGO of receiving minors in the Canary Islands, Delia García already Enrique Quintana RamosDirector of Centers. Precisely, this man is a well -known militant of the local PSOE and was part of the executive of Gáldar.
This new phase of the proceedings have been advanced by the Canary Islands7 that has advanced the two arrests and records that have been practiced throughout this Thursday in several of the centers that manage this group. He Court of Violence against Children and Adolescence of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria He has been in charge of ordering these new actions that have been commanded by the Police.
The cause remains secret but the two detainees are investigated by the alleged commission of crimes of lesions, hate, omission of the duty to prevent crimes or promote their persecution, against moral integrity and threats. The police have closed one of the centers they managed and now they will have to look for a new destination for 148 minors who were in this installation.
The “Blackout” of the Chambers
It should be noted that Social Quorum 77, which is the main NGO that hosts minors in the Canary Islands, is defined on its website as “non -profit association that has a extensive experience in intervention and monitoring of children and adolescents who are within the protection system. ”
The origin of this investigation was produced by the complaint of alleged abuses that filed in one of its centers, which is located in Santa Brígida. That first incident ended with a total of nine detainees but the investigations continued. The building was closed last May and transferred their 45 tenants.
In this way, the progress of the proceedings determined that those in charge of the centers had off all surveillance cameras installed in the rest of the infrastructure. A mass blackout not to reveal what happened inside its walls.
Social quorum 77 has the management of a total of 31 centers with 1,925 places throughout the Canary Islands From January 2023 to March 2025. The Canarian Police has tried to collect documentation related to the tenants of these places and also parts about what was happening inside these buildings.
For months, the focus of the controversy hovered on this entity since it had been pointed out by other civil organizations for opacity in its management. They had been detected serious deficiencies that the workers had denounced for the precarious conditions in which the minors lived.
Racist bad treatment and insults
The testimony of minors who related to social services the situations with which they had to deal every day has also been key. From ill -treatment to racist insults. One of the keys to the case is the collection of the reports that the pediatricians who have attended the victims have been making in all this time.
On this matter, the president of the Canary Islands Fernando Clavijo recalled that the Autonomous Community has been warning that the number of minors to which guardianship, some 5,500, exceeded him. In the same way, he has argued that “With so many minors and for so long” It is difficult for the controls to serve.
“We have been warning that these circumstances could occur and Hopefully this is just“He has emphasized. One of those arrested is a well -known member of the local PSOE who is part of one of the municipal executives of the Canary Islands.