Ciudad Real City Hall was able to verify the installation of “a few fence posts three meters high” within the city’s airport grounds, a place where the central government has proposed the opening of an Emergency Reception and Reference Center (CAED) for immigrants.
This finding is one of the indications that questions the version of the Sánchez governmentexpressed by the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration, Elma Sáiz, who assured this Thursday that the matter is in “an absolutely initial phase” and therefore “no decision has been made”.
Despite these comments, an inspection by the Department of Urban Planning and Economic Promotion of Ciudad Real City Hall verified on the ground that these positions “they were installed on the perimeter adjacent to a ship” which “initially” was “intended for a hangar”.
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All this information is contained in a letter, to which EL ESPAÑOL-EL DIGITAL CLM had access, sent by the Town Hall itself to the Community Council of Castilla-La Mancha. In it, it is specified that “the “dimensions” of a fence which “does not correspond to the installation of a perimeter fence used in installations of this nature“.
According to what was observed by the technicians who carried out the visit, we also note that “we clearly see” that these fixing elements of the fence “were recently installed.” This is evidenced by the fact that “the cement has set recently and the tensioners which join certain posts to others are still appearing”.
At the end of the letter, the municipal council which governs the “popular” Francisco Canizares recall that, according to the Singular Interest Plan of Ciudad Real Airport, “it has been established that the lands that make up the airport complex have specifically defined that they are intended for aerial communications infrastructures or installations intended for the development of industrial or tertiary activities.
The fact that the law does not allow the creation of a reception center at the airport is a argument shared by both the Commission and the Municipal Councilwho in this matter aligned themselves with the same position.
In fact, Cañizares himself called this Friday’s letter “A symbol of collaboration with the Council so that they are aware of movements that take place at the airport and whose activity does not take place in a facility that is not provided for by regional or local regulations.
Evidence and lack of explanations
Since the intentions of the central government were known last Monday, the Executive of Castile-La Mancha has requested explanations on the details of a project about which little is officially known.
So far, the only information that has emerged are the somewhat scattered statements of Elma Sáiz, in which she limited herself to ensuring that “no decision has been taken” and that the case is in an “absolutely initial” phase, so that “different options are being analyzed”.
Regarding the characteristics of the hypothetical center, The minister explained that it would be an “open regime” center that it would have all the services and would meet the “habitability criteria”, a model antagonistic to that followed by the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in the center built in Albania which placed it “outside European legality” .
If this were ultimately the case and Ciudad Real airport hosted this “open” center, it must be taken into account that It would be located 12 kilometers from the capital and 18 from Puertollano.
In any case, not having specific information from the central government, the Council also addressed the Ciudad Real International Airport (CRIA), owner of the airport, to try to obtain details on this project.
However, this appeal was also not very successful. Based on what was shared by the Minister of Economy, Commerce and Employment of Castile-La Mancha, Patricia Francduring a forum organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Ciudad Real, when the Council learned of the project and addressed the company, “it put on the table the confidentiality agreement with the government”. From there, he assured that “We demand that any decision be communicated to those who are competent in the matter“, something that “didn’t happen.”
In addition to this attitude of the company and the installation of the fence, Europa Press revealed the existence of a document in which the CRIA asked the Municipal Solid Waste Management Consortium of the Provincial Delegation of Ciudad Real for a budget to obtain twenty waste collection containers for “a big project”which would start “in two or three weeks at most”.
Apparently, this would not have been the only approach of the CRIA in this regard. The president of the Chamber of Commerce of Ciudad Real, Jose Luiz Ruizhighlighted this week that “many businessmen” were contacted via the airport itself to ask them for different quotes for providing services in the facility before the imminent construction of the center.
Some of the companies contacted are dedicated to security and maintenance sector and we ask them up to a hundred workers.
This chain of events led the president of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, to admit on Friday that beyond Sáiz’s statement that the decision has not been made, “The information is a little more worrying.”
“If we were to trust Spain in what is said in the press conferences, we were prepared“, quipped the leader of Castile-La Mancha, who hoped to be able to talk about this subject with Pedro Sánchez and hoped that “Atrocities like those that happened at the airport get out of the heads of those who think about it“.
