Increase the number of homeless people at Madrid Airport, Bragas, worries the workers
The main federation talks about prostitution, violence and drug use at airport facilities, as Tolphid died 6 years for 60 years on Thursday.
he Adolfo Suarez Madrid Pragas AirportThe main entrance and the exit door spaceIt is a major point for National Security Where thousands of travelers and workers meet every day. It is among the 20 most crowded airport in the world and is the main relationship between Latin America and Europe. However, in its facilities, a parallel fact is coexiarted: the existence Homeless.
According to the estimates of the main workers’ Union, some of them 500 people spend daily in this fieldA noticeable increase against the forty who did a decade ago, tells us Alexia linerepresentative ASA Union. This phenomenon has launched a great concern among the employees who owe an unsustainable situation.
This is the same Thursday A 60 -year -old man died in a final bathroom 4 From Madrid Airport, Euronus police sources were confirmed. When the toilets arrived, the man was in the dilemma of my heart without a heart, and despite the recovery attempts, it was not possible to save it.
Airport workers, whom they spoke with “Euronews”, said that there was An increase in serious accidents. “About ten years ago there were about 40 people and now we are about 500 people, and that is Health, safety, hygiene problem And a picture of an airport at the highest level, which is The entrance to tourism in SpainAlexia font dice.
The Union’s delegate emphasizes the diversity of features between these people: “There are all kinds, with different problems. He commits attacks, insults and threats to employees and users“The Ministry of State for Immigration has made it clear that has no record of existence Migrants are waiting for political asylum In these facilities.
Included incidents from robbery to violence. “Cleaning staff suffer from this situation directly. A few weeks ago, A cleaner spit on his face and threw a tubeHe says FONT. However, he insists on not generalizing and needing Help. “Not all people do it, they are specific situations and they need help.”
The union’s representative, who also works as a nurse at the airport’s medical service, regrets “it was”The drug returnsAnd he gives birth to an increase in crime, theft, and even prostitution. “It is a serious social problem where we, as an emergency medical service, we only put a patch,” he says.
The night turns the airport
Panorama gets worse at night. At about 22:00, the first displaced people arrive, who spend today in Barajas or Madrid Town“Looking for Life,” Font says. It becomes the lowest traffic areas A shelter for those who prayBut many workers fear that moment.
Jose Miguel San LewisA seven -month store employee, he says he is afraid: “I have faced many problems. They stole me, they faced each other. Complaints were submitted and did not leave, I was thinking every day they could steal me. It is the fact that they will try. I always think that something can happen to me“The perception of tourists is also affected,” he says.
“I sleep on the ground with a blanket”
Among those who resort to sleep airport Daniel FontvoColombian spent five months in Paraguas after it was Victims of fraud. They promised the work and a visa for a large amount of money, but when they arrived spaceI realize that everything was a lie. “I sleep on the floor with a blanket, wake up early, search for work, food, and go back here at night, I do this to send money to my son“.
Today, after an intermittent regular work day, the biggest thing he worries is to send 20 euros that they paid Your family in Colombia. He is excited to tell that his son, a year and a half, began walking. “Without him, I will not be here, I came to search for a better tomorrow for him“His mother has already been getting him forward,” he says.
He is 28 years old and was again A second fraud victim arrived in Spain. “While I was working here for a month and a half under construction, they did not pay me that I could not have my roles in the system.” Its history shows that not all people who have no shelter who sleep in Barajas violently or a problem and that they are A multi -surface problem: “Here are people They consume drugsBut also a lot of no. I do not consume drugs, do not smoke cigarettes.
This position is also presented, in similar phrases, at other airports such as Barcelona or Palma de Mallorca; It is not so in the train stations in the countries that are closed at night. The departments are aware of, however Lack of joint work Between local institutions and government institutions perpetuate the conflict.
A multi -disciplinary problem
“This is a multidisciplinary problem, it is a collective work between Government delegation, city council and AinaThe company that runs Spanish airports. “You can expel us, but these people should be helpful,” says Alexa Font.
“The problem is at a level Madrid City CouncilBut regardless of political ideology, this is everyone’s responsibility. it takes The biggest intervention in security and policeBecause there are 500 people in critical infrastructure, “he adds.
propagandaDivide between different departments
“Euronews” occurs with the social services area in the city of the capital. In data to this means, they confirm this.Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Inclusion They are qualified in Attention to asylum seekers There they expect international protection to be addressed, “which does not have a record in these institutions, and they have made clear.
“The Ministry of Social Rights has competencies in with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with with it National strategy They say from the city council to this means, from caring for these people who do not advance Distribution to the central government “To provide a decent response to these people, and understand that the way to obtain it is with The responsibility and participation of everyone“.
