The situation of the Sincho in Barajas continues to make a ball for all the administrations involved, basically AENA, as a airport manager, and the City Council of … Madrid, responsible for the social care of the capital withouthogar. Both institutions have so far unable to solve the overcrowding and degradation problem in T4. The most international Spanish airport terminal welcomes every night “between 300 and 500” homeless people, to which the ASAE union attributes the safety and unhealthiness problems that “occur daily” in those facilities and affect their workers.
The last one has been a plague of bed bugs and fleas, denied by Aena, which nevertheless has launched hygienization measures in the areas indicated by the workers of the aerodrome, including the T4. These tasks have displaced the synthesch to a lower floor, where they now spend without being so in sight, since it is an area barely traveled by airport users. Some airlines and the City Council themselves complained that the image of Madrid was being very resentful of the presence of the synthesch in the billing areas, where hospitality services and clothing stores, accessories and perfumes where thousands of travelers pass daily.
Given this situation, the ASAE union (aena/enaire union alternative), which denounced the problem, has asked for the intervention of the Ombudsman, Ángel Gabilondo, who have invited them to accompany them one night to tour the facilities of the T4 where they spend the night “and see with their own eyes how these people are.”
In a letter sent to the defender, the Secretary General of ASAE, Antonio Llarena, has invited Gabilondo to constitute a mediation table between Aena, the Ministry of Transport, the Madrid City Council and the Community of Madrid «to establish measures and put a reasonable time period for homeless people to leave Barajas. To look for money because if there is money for weapons there must be for these people, ”said Llarena in statements to this newspaper. ASAE plans to go to the defender’s offices on Monday to deliver the letter in hand and transfer their requests to Gabilondo “or some of his attachments.”
Formal requirement
The truth is that administrations with responsibilities in Barajas continue to throw the junk to the head and every time with fewer contemplations. This Friday the president of Aena, Maurici Lucena, announced that he will send a formal requirement to the Madrid City Council “to fulfill its legal obligations as responsible public administration” with the group of homeless people who live and spend the night in the Madrid airfield.
Lucena has responded to the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, who has urged the government of Spain to “assume her responsibility”, stop “washing their hands” and “addressing the solution” with homeless people in Barajas.
For Lucena, these statements of the Madrid councilor put “in question” the spirit of collaboration with the City Council, to which his “abandonment of functions” on this issue, whose powers, insisted, are of the Consistory has recriminated.
«It is absolutely unacceptable that Almeida’s response is to throw balls outside and say that social services are collapsed. It is a problem of management and poor management of the legal priorities that the Madrid City Council has to comply with. That is why AENA asks Amparo to meet the legal obligations related to a very sensitive group such as homeless people, ”said Lucena.
Almeida, on the other hand, insists that it is the government “who has to address, definitively, the solution.” “This cannot be left to Aena, or taking responsibility to the Madrid City Council because it is not just a matter of Aena, it is a matter of the ministries, which have the ability to solve the problem,” he said. “Aena is public, the government has control and what is happening there depends on several ministries,” said the mayor, who has committed to continue “helping” already put “first to these people in the center of everything.”
Attitude “ruin”
Something more rises were the statements of the Councilor for Social Policies, Family and Equality, José Fernández, who has labeled “Ruin” the attitude of the president of Aena for “using the most vulnerable.” According to Fernández, «using the most vulnerable, such as homeless people, by the Government of Spain is Ruin and this has been the president of Aena. Enough to politically use the most vulnerable people. Not everything is worth, ”said Fernández.
In the Opposition Bank, the PSOE spokeswoman in the City Council, Reyes Maroto, has stressed that the airfield “is not a municipal shelter” and has asked the Consistory to “assume his responsibility with withouthogarism.”
