Spanish Airports and Air Navigation (AENA) will send a formal requirement to the Madrid City Council so that as a competent administration it meets its legal obligations and occupies the collective of some 500 homeless people who live at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport.
The president of Aena, Maurici Lucena, has made this announcement to the media in response to the statements of this Friday of the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who has asked the Government of Spain for the situation of the homeless at the Barajas airport.
Lucena has explained that Aena It is obliged to use the planned mechanisms In the contentious-administrative law before “La Inaction” and “the abandonment of functions” of the Madrid City Council, while describing as unacceptable that the mayor’s political response is “to throw balls out”.
“If the social services of the Madrid City Council are collapsed, This is a management problem of the Madrid City Council And it is a reflection of a bad management of the legal priorities that the obligation to fulfill has, “he said.
“If the mayor and the Madrid City Council rectify and in the next few hours they let us know and their teams address the situation, such as their legal obligation, Aena will continue collaborating with them as he has done so far And as he has done in other Spanish airports that have had similar situations in recent months, “he added.
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The Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport, through AENA, asks the public powers to amarine so that the legal obligations are fulfilled, in this case of the Madrid City Council, in matters of social services, and can be solved a problem related to a “very sensitive” collective, such as homeless people.
The president of Aena has been shown “Especially worried and disappointed” Given the delicate situation that has been created at the airport and before the statements of several members of the City Council and the mayor of Madrid.
“We are talking about A vulnerable social group which affects people who in many cases are going through a painful vital situation, which deserves the understanding and solidarity of all, “Lucena said.
He has argued that Aena’s obligation, as an airport manager, is to try to help the competent public authorities who have the legal obligation to solve this problem, while attending their main obligation, which is the management of the operation of the airport.
“The group of homeless people is a social group that deserves, as citizens, All our attention And, therefore, what I claim is that the public power that has unequivocally the obligation to act and resolve this situation, now and do not leave functions, “he insisted.
Since this problem arose, he said, Aena has tried to collaborate at all times with the Madrid City Council to solve the problem of homeless people at Barajas airport, through which 200,000 people travel and work every day.
“It is obvious that airports are not designed to inhabit people, they are passing infrastructures”, so it has requested “a dignified housing situation” for the nearly 500 homeless people who currently live in Barajas.
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