Custody lifted from parents of two Bengali sisters amid risk of marriage

This Thursday night, one of these young people condemned before Mossos d’Esquadra in Barcelona that her family wanted to force her to marryHe’s a man from his own country, so he’s currently under guard in an apartment of the Generalitat.

Sources from the Department of Social Rights told EFE that it was not just a young woman who requested protection THIS FRIDAY. two and they are brothers.

The same sources, the Catalan administration applied the de facto abandonment to two sisters as protection and guardianship..

Therefore, the parents of these two young women no longer have legal guardianship, but this is under the DGAIA as both are minors.

The alarm was sounded this Thursday night upon a complaint to the Catalan police, a few days after one of the two young Bengalis was deliberately killed by some relatives of two other Pakistani sisters residing in Terrassa (Barcelona). To break the forced marriages with two cousins ​​in that Asian country.

The Catalan police have a protocol. prevention of forced marriagesIt’s a crime persecuted by the Penal Code, and Mossos victim aid groups often offer advice to these underage women.

According to various media reports this Friday, the girl who filed the complaint this Thursday did so at the Raval neighborhood police station in Barcelona, ​​where she said: She had lived in the city for several years with her 15-year-old sister and three brothers who were born in Spain.

The young woman told the agents: Her family had arranged for an arranged marriage with a Bangladeshi man she did not know, and she said the family would move to that country in June. later, despite her refusing to marry and receiving threats.