The entities criticize the request for "heroic" behavior to access these rights
El Government works to regularize the situation of the two men of Senegalese origin, Ibrahima y makate, who tried to help Samuel Luis, the 24-year-old assassinated in a brutal beating in Coruña. Witnesses have assured the police that both Ibrahima and Makate were actively involved in defending Samuel from his assailants.
They both had a "active intervention”In defense of Samuel while he was being beaten by the group of young people who chased him along the Riazor promenade. This was said this Tuesday by the Government delegate in Galicia, Jose Miñones. He himself has been the one who has confirmed that the Secretary of State for Migration is already working to regularize the situation in Spain of these two citizens of African origin.
They both have no papers. "This is where we want to act. The objective is that they can have a work permit", has said Minions, while ensuring that the testimony of both "has been key in the investigation”. The two collaborated with the police in the investigations, despite their delicate situation in Spain. Their statements have helped arrest and bring to justice the six main perpetrators of the fatal beating.
A claim from Samuel's friends
Samuel's friends met Ibrahima, after the massive concentration held in A Coruña two days after the murder, starring in an emotional reunion. That the authorities arrange his papers for his exemplary attitude has been one of the demands of Samuel's closest environment.
This Senegalese man, 35 years old and a fisherman by profession, has spent almost three years in Spain. He was with his friend makate in the vicinity of the promenade of Riazor when the events happened. One covered the young man with his body and another tried to stop the blows in the first phase of the fight. Although there were more people walking down the street at that time, they were the only ones who tried to avoid the beating.
Ibrahima is currently engaged in street vending. He survives on what he sells until his papers are fixed. If your situation is regularized and you get a work permit, Ibrahima I could work in the fishing industry.
From clandestine to heroes
It is not the first case in which permits are regularized for people who have carried out acts «heroic«. Last year, the same Secretary of state granted residence and work permit to Gorgui Lamine Sow , a young Senegalese who had rescued a man with reduced mobility caught in a fire in Dénia. In France, Macron granted nationality to Mamoudou Gassama, a Malian resident in Paris who saved a 4-year-old boy hanging from a balcony in 2018.
Entities and groups of migrants have criticized the asking of heroic behaviors of migrants to access rights that should be for everyone: «We want to point out to the Government that manipulating "meritocracy" to regularize migrants eludes the responsibility of the State to equal ourselves in access to rights, regardless of how functional we are to wash away racism. We are 600.000!»Have tweeted from the account @RegularizacionY.
