Alert over the appearance of a white van trying to catch school dropouts in Mallorca

WhatsApp groups of students’ parents CEIP Mestre Column They’ve been burning for days. Talks about messages and voice memosAt least two possible cases driven by the white van that would be in the last weeks.

The first of these is the expression of a girl who, upon returning home, told her mother that “the white van is there again”, that is, on a street near the training center and it wouldn’t be the first time he’s seen it. At first the parent believed that everything was the daughter’s imagination and paid no attention to it, but after a few days everything changed.

It was last Thursday when things started. All the time, a man would address a student on his way home from school, according to the testimony of affected minors circulating in parents’ WhatsApp groups: “Girl, do you want to come to my house to see some puppy?”, she told him she was getting into a white van.

events occurred Antoni Estarellas is on the promenade. then the youngest He got scared and rushed home to explain to his family what had happened. They brought it to the attention of the Local Police, just as the other student’s mother did later.

It so happens that The two documented cases occurred between 3:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. when leaving the school cafeteria. Some students who eat at school, especially older ones, often return home alone. At that time, there is no longer any police oversight, unlike what happened during the 2:00 p.m. lecturing where there was always a police officer regulating the traffic.

This isn’t the first time they’ve been reported. situations like this, there is always a white van. In addition to the surroundings of various parks and educational centers in Esports, Santa Maria, Montuïri or Consell, Palma, there have been other places where attempts to kidnap minors have been reported by people arriving in a white van, but all complaints have so far passed. archived for lack of evidence.