Madrid airport is struggling to deal with an unprecedented inflow of African asylum seekers, who should sleep in crammed, soiled areas, prompting the Pink Cross to cease offering providers there in protest.
A whole bunch of migrants, the bulk from Senegal, have in current weeks requested asylum after arriving in Madrid whereas on a layover to different international locations, normally ones in South America that don’t require entry visas, a police union consultant instructed AFP.
Whereas they wait for his or her claims to be processed they’re stored in rooms geared up with loos put aside for migrants looking for asylum.
The federal government opened a fourth room to deal with the surge in arrivals however some asylum seekers are nonetheless pressured to sleep on inflatable mattresses or share a mattress, in keeping with the Spanish Fee for Support to Refugees (CEAR), a non-governmental organisation. “The overcrowding and unsanitary situations have reached important ranges, inflicting outbreaks of bedbugs, a build-up of rubbish and a scarcity of towels for private hygiene,” it stated in a press release.
Extra asylum claims had been made on the airport in January — 864 — than throughout all of 2022, the final yr for which official figures can be found, when 767 had been filed.
Spain is likely one of the foremost gateways for immigration into Europe. A complete of 56,852 undocumented migrants entered Spain final yr, an 82.1% soar from 2022.
A whole bunch of migrants, the bulk from Senegal, have in current weeks requested asylum after arriving in Madrid whereas on a layover to different international locations, normally ones in South America that don’t require entry visas, a police union consultant instructed AFP.
Whereas they wait for his or her claims to be processed they’re stored in rooms geared up with loos put aside for migrants looking for asylum.
The federal government opened a fourth room to deal with the surge in arrivals however some asylum seekers are nonetheless pressured to sleep on inflatable mattresses or share a mattress, in keeping with the Spanish Fee for Support to Refugees (CEAR), a non-governmental organisation. “The overcrowding and unsanitary situations have reached important ranges, inflicting outbreaks of bedbugs, a build-up of rubbish and a scarcity of towels for private hygiene,” it stated in a press release.
Extra asylum claims had been made on the airport in January — 864 — than throughout all of 2022, the final yr for which official figures can be found, when 767 had been filed.
Spain is likely one of the foremost gateways for immigration into Europe. A complete of 56,852 undocumented migrants entered Spain final yr, an 82.1% soar from 2022.