Wallström pressed Morocco on street children – Swedish Dagbladet

Foreign Minister Margot Wallström. Photo: Pontus Lundahl / TT

Since year-end Sweden and Morocco had a dialogue about how children and young people to be returned to Morocco. In May, an agreement was signed by Interior Minister Anders Ygeman described as “an important step on the way.” But since then the situation of young people has not changed.

Foreign Minister Margot Wallström (S) raised the issue with his Moroccan colleague when the two met in Rabat on Wednesday.

– We talked in front all about getting the task force, as agreed earlier, to start work and meet. It was an opportunity to say that this is important, says Wallström.

About a month the elections in Morocco, which could affect the matter drags on. But Wallström points out that the whole issue is complex, for example, to the young people themselves often do not go home.

– They do not apply for asylum and live in the outskirts of society, or are avoiding the police and others, then it is not easy to send them back and not easy to control them. And it is difficult for us to be effective in how we approach them, says Wallström.

According to Tobias Merry , the initiator of the charitable organization Habibi whose focus is to help the young from North Africa, the problem is that it is not possible to send back the youth.

those who have returned to Morocco have met with families who do not want to receive them, according to Merry.

– Since they are back in Europe again in no time. We have boys who have gone to the Moroccan embassy in Sweden and said that they want to go home but Morocco says no. We have boys who voluntarily chose to leave Sweden but they will be sent back here, he says.

Tobias Happy describes the current situation of the North African children and youth as a catch-22.

in May stated Immigration service that they should also help with the work by placing a migrationssambandsman on location in Morocco.

Now, informs the work, through the press office, to work on the return of Morocco to be seen over and that the results will be presented later in the autumn.