“Je m’apelle Abou”, “My name is Abou”. This is how the eight-year-old Saharawi boy replied, when the Tarajal border control scanner (Ceuta) found him among his clothes inside the suitcase. It seems that the girl's father paid a suitcase to a young man to take her. The objective was to meet the parents residing in the Canary Islands. The father has been denounced for activities related to human trafficking. It happened last week, in the middle of the election campaign, but neither the usual parties, nor the new ones, have put on the table the debate on immigration, economic and political, despite the fact that it is causing thousands of deaths.

The suitcase is a symbol of this de-sensitized and individualistic society. This picture, which is shrinking a child in his suitcase, may be the picture of the year, as he faces intimidation from the West. This allows the foreigner who buys an apartment to live within its limits, but not the one who flees from hunger and political persecution to survive. Capitalist globalization allows the movement of capital, although it often hides corruption, arms trafficking and forced prostitution. However, it does not accept the movements of people who want to save their lives.

With sarcasm and little shame, “Justice” wants to criminalize this child’s father accused of “human trafficking.” This is how justice shows its capitalist character. Criminal codes are made up of large parts in the service of capital. Thus, it is possible to punish the father who is capable of doing anything to unite the child with him, but not those responsible for having to put him in a suitcase to achieve it. And those responsible people know where they are. The European parliaments and governments, in this case the Spanish State.