Babou Cham (Gambia, 1974) is a theater, film, and television actor. He can currently be seen on tour in The storm, from the company La Perla 29, on February 28 in Manacor, on March 6 in Reus, on March 14 in Tarragona and on March 15 in Igualada.

When he was three years old, his father left for England, but stopped halfway, in Mataró. "He was going to study in England, but he stayed temporarily in the Maresme region and started helping other people who were also coming here, and many of them did make it to England, and some to Sweden and Denmark."

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It took three years for the courts to recognize that Gambian Saynei Kanteh was indeed a minor, after the Juvenile Prosecutor's Office ruled that he was over eighteen and therefore no longer entitled to public protection. He was immediately removed from the guardianship of the Directorate General for Child Welfare (DGAIA, now the DGPPIA) and expelled from the center where he lived. "I knew he wasn't lying, that I was seventeen, and I trusted that sooner or later..." I would have the papers"," he states.

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Bakary and Lassana were minors, and the Catalan government (Generalitat) caused them to end up on the streets by claiming they were adults. Now, the courts have ruled in favor of the two Gambian boys. The age tests carried out by the Public Prosecutor's Office to determine their age, which led the former Directorate General for Child and Adolescent Care (DGAIA) to expel them from children's centers, were invalid. Lassana and Bakary's are just two cases. But there are many more scattered throughout the region. In the city of Girona, there are already two other court rulings, and in La Garrotxa, for example, there have been about ten in recent months.

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