THE National Police opened an investigation into escape of four asylum seekers with Moroccan passports escaped from a room Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport, where applications for international protection are processed.
For a little less than a month, a group of Sahrawis from Morocco have been in Barajas waiting to be granted asylum or to be returned. According to data from the Interior, this is something more than 70 citizens wait at Madrid airport coming from the neighboring country, some started a hunger strike a few days ago as a sign of protest.
Last January, the National Police unions reported a new escape, this time of nearly 30 asylum seekers of North African origin. Police organizations have warned of “risks to aviation security” as some migrants managed to access the airport runways after breaking the glass in one of the asylum room windows.
On this occasion, the Police are investigating the flight of these four citizens holding Moroccan passports due to suspicions that They were able to leave the asylum room through the roof.
Interior highlights its commitment to avoiding fraud
The problems posed by asylum seekers seeking protection during their stopover in Barajas have caused Government intervention to prevent the collapse of facilities before the arrival of citizens from different African countries, including Mauritania, Senegal, Kenya and Morocco. In some cases, transit visas have been put in place to prevent fraud during a stop in Madrid.
Precisely the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaskaassured yesterday during the press conference after the Council of Ministers that they maintained a “communication, coordination and permanent cooperation” with the UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to study “individually” each Sahrawi asylum request, “if applicable” the recognition of international protection or, failing that, authorize expulsions.
“The resolution which is issued is the resolution which is understood from the point of view of the strict application of international law and humanitarian law with regard to the fact of being or not a creditor of international protection, in accordance with the Convention of Geneva,” said Grande-Marlaska. .
Specifically, they asked him about the UNHCR’s recommendations to Spain to allow the entry of citizens of Sahrawi origin instead of attempting to expel them. As he did last week, Grande-Marlaska stressed that the decision adopted by the Government concerning the Sahrawis of Barajas is executed with the “final and definitive protection of the Judicial Power“, since it is a judge who ultimately endorses the resolution approved by the Ministry of the Interior.
“We work on each case individually.it is carefully studied and resolved. And we cannot forget that there is also the action of the judiciary, which, where appropriate, also resolves and reviews any resolution issued,” he indicated.
According to Interior data from this Monday, In Barajas there are a total of 115 asylum seekers, 73 of whom come from Moroccoalthough none went on hunger strike. A week earlier, 57 Moroccan citizens said they were persecuted Sahrawis. Some of them went so far as to announce a hunger strike in protest.
