Four Moroccan citizens asylum seekers they ran away this Tuesday night of one of the reception rooms Barajas airport through a hole in the ceiling, sources from the Ministry of the Interior and unions. After climb through the roofthe men reached the roof and there they lost track. Since then they have been searched by the National Police.
Union sources have indicated that the escape shows that the structures that provide Aenathe operator of the Barajas airport, to guard asylum seekers are “totally insufficient and unsafe”.
“You cannot be working in these conditions, without safety measures and without adequate conditions,” they warn, while pointing out the “gravity” that implies not knowing “where they are” fugitives, since they can “cause a critical security incident” by “running freely through a critical structure” such as the Barajas airport. “They can go out to the slopes or to various places where they could endanger safety,” they warn.
According to data provided by union sources, in room 3 there are 46 asylum seekers and 27 inadmissible; In room 1, provisional in nature, which is enabled in situations of saturation, there are 18 minors and 52 women; and in room 4 there are 78 people.
Last Monday, the Ministry of the Interior tried deport a part of the 35 Sahrawi citizens who remained held in Barajas, but at least a group of asylum seekers refused to board the plane and remained in the airport premises.
On repeated occasions, humanitarian organizations have denounced the overcrowded and unsafe conditions in which asylum seekers remain at the Barajas airport while their requests are processed.
