The SUP denounces that the collapse and unhealthiness continue in Barajas due to "overcrowded" African travelers asking for asylum

They point out that there are families with children and cases in which they access the slopes or jump over the physical barriers to enter Spain.

MADRID, 12 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Unified Police Union (SUP) has denounced this Friday that the collapse and unhealthiness continue in the rooms to request asylum at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport, where a daily average of about 150 people are "crammed in", the majority from countries Africans such as Kenya, Senegal and now especially Morocco, since when transiting through the capital they take the opportunity to ask for international protection.

On January 4, the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, assured that measures had already been taken to resolve what he described as a "specific" problem, which motivated three judges to send requests to provide an urgent solution.

The SUP, however, reports that it has visited the airport facilities to see first-hand the "precarious situation of overcrowding and unhealthiness in which the police officers find themselves, isolated and inadmissible", for which it has demanded the urgent intervention of the Administration after its manifest "incompetence", despite the "enormous effort" of the leadership of the border post in Barajas.

The situation they describe is that of travelers who get rid of their documentation to request international protection or who even wait overnight - as they say at least 60 people have done - to climb the physical elements of the border post and try to enter irregularly. in Spanish territory. In some cases, they warn, "accessing the airport runways with the consequent danger."

The SUP addresses the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to urgently request that it provide transit visas for all flights coming from Africa, especially from Morocco, which together with Senegal are the ones that are now collapsing the international transit hall without reaching never take connecting flights that take them to their final destinations.

The union also asks to prepare rooms 2, 3 and 4 "with cleanliness, adequate security measures and sufficient beds", since they are places where these people can stay for up to a month until their situation is resolved.

Their request is also addressed to the Red Cross to take responsibility for providing the social assistance that is entrusted to the asylum seekers, that is, they say, "the cleaning of the areas where they are, putting in place the necessary disinfection means to avoid the proliferation of diseases and picking up garbage punctually every day.

The SUP's criticism is also directed towards AENA, pointing out that the airport manager "continues to ignore" the problems affecting families with children who have "a cabin without ventilation or windows, illuminated by artificial light all the time." day, without showers and with a single bathroom for all those crammed on inflatable mattresses without fumigation.