The Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport remains a powder keg with no solutions. The “patches” of the Executive have done little to solve the problem. collapse of the reception rooms of immigrants, as well as the lack of agents and means. Without going any further, this Sunday, around 7:00 p.m., a New riot in Hall 3 of Terminal 1which welcomes citizens who have requested international protection and are awaiting the outcome of the processing of their application. In other words, whether their asylum application has been accepted or denied.
According to the Spanish Police Confederation (CEP), a group of Mauritanian and Maghrebian citizens, of the almost eighty interned in these facilities, “tried to escape after learning that they had rejected some of their asylum requests“The situation reached such a point that the agents stationed at the Barajas airport border post were forced, once again, to request reinforcements.
The arrival of the Prevention and Reaction Unit (UPR) had a deterrent effect, according to the police union, which also highlights the work of the interpreters who mediated between the agents and the immigrants who had requested asylum. “This allowed the situation to be brought back under control andto separate from the group those who had provoked the mutiny and attempted escapeavoiding in any case incidents or injuries between police officers or applicants for international protection,” the CEP points out.
Marlaska’s “patches”
At this point, it becomes clear that helplessness and lack of protection of the agents destined for this infrastructure. The repeated complaints and denunciations of the police fall on deaf ears due to the abandonment of the Executive of Pedro Sanchez and his Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaskawhich is limited to applying “patches”.
“The colleagues stationed at the border post must deal with these public order incidents. without sufficient personnel, without means of protection necessary and without specialized training,” they denounce from this union. Therefore, they demand that the Interior reinforce the staff to avoid incidents such as the one experienced yesterday, as well as a Increase in the amount of the territoriality supplement who are paid monthly (to match that of police officers stationed in the city of Madrid or in central services).
Finally, the Spanish Police Confederation demands “greater recognition, in the form of more public congratulations and decorationswhich puts an end to a period in which the number of professional rewards is practically symbolic, discouraging the great professionals who provide services at Barajas, both in the area of Citizen Security and in Immigration and Borders and Judicial Police.”
Collapse of asylum rooms
The improvisational policy of Pedro Sánchez’s Government in immigration matters has caused collapses in the reception rooms for immigrants at Madrid-Barajas airport. And the “patch” used by the Executive in January of this year to solve the chaos of the asylum rooms due to the massive arrival of illegal immigrants, was of no use. So much so that in June one of the rooms for non-admitted people at Madrid airport was completely saturated by the Mass arrival of people from Mauritania with the Royal Air Maroc company.
This event once again brought to the fore the issue of Grande-Marlaska’s disregard for the police, who was unable to meet the needs of the national police and implement the necessary measures and human and material resources to guarantee the security and integrity of the agents. And it also seems to have served little purpose. the transitional visa imposed on citizens of Mauritania since August 28, as demonstrated by the incident this Sunday.