De luchthaven, een veilige plek voor alleenreizende minderjarigen?

DEEL III: CONCLUSIES EN AANBEVELINGEN
fraudulent manner. Since this matter concerned is very delicate, the public authority
ought to develop adequate measures to impede this phenomenon, with the participation
of all authorities and services that deliver identity or residence documents and
that can contribute to the decrease of fraudulent practices.
The current procedures can be optimalized as follows:
1. a clear, uniform and written procedure for the journey of the minor travelling alone;
2. uniformizing documents and procedures for Unaccompanied Minors;
3. raising the age of compulsory assistance to the age of 14;
4. additional questions on, amongst others, the person who collects the minor,
who sends the minor, the travel motive, place of residence and destination;
5. stimulating the actors’ vigilance to recognize signals in the interaction between
the minor travelling alone and the person collecting him. If there is doubt on
the latter, the Federal Police should be contacted.
These are recommendations on tracing and detecting the minors travelling alone who
run a potential risk of becoming prey to abuse (human traffi cking and human trade
in particular):
1. reducing this risk by offering the police offi cers in key services the know-how
to detect risk situations, identify potential victims and conduct a survey in the
interest of the minor travelling alone;
2. a summary per country of which organizations are competent for specifi c
problems in the child’s interest;
3. drawing up and implementing an information oriented investigation in the
Schengen area;
4. making passenger information accessible by airlines to enable the competent
authorities to conduct a risk assessment and to detect risk profi les;
5. specialized training regarding child interrogation to avoid secondary victimization;
6. no coercion must be used to get declarations on potential human trade or
human traffi cking victimization;
7. holding the interrogation in the presence of an interpreter who speaks the
minor’s mother tongue and an intermediary, i.e. the guardian, if possible;
8. a uniform, standardized and unambiguous procedure to minimalize the administrative
workload of the actors involved;
9. an effi cient, quick follow-up by the local authorities to check the authenticity
of declarations that were made and to closely follow potential risk situations.
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