Earlier this month, the Federal Court gave a family seeking refugee status another shot at remaining in Canada. But they weren’t fleeing war — they were fleeing Spain.
The family (aside from the mother) were Spanish nationals who claimed that they were being pursued by a transnational criminal organization, and that police were so useless that it warranted refugee status in Canada. Originally from Latin America, they moved to Europe when the father allegedly received a death threat from the gang in question.
