Nearly a hundred illegal immigrants from Mauritania revolted this Sunday in the unacceptable room of Madrid Barajas airport, forcing National Police officers to intervene and causing damage to airport facilities.
As OKDIARIO has learned, there have been several physical clashes between immigrants and agents stationed at Barajas airport to the point that the reinforcement of some anti-riot units has been requested to control the situation. Finally, reinforcements from the Prevention and Response Unit (UPR) shorten the arrival time at the airport to help their colleagues.
The origin of the incidents lies in the escape attempt by three of the illegal immigrants detained in room 3, the one for inadmissible immigrants, at Barajas airport. Given the imminence of his repatriation to Mauritania After spending days locked in the room, the immigrants broke down the doors of the room and tried to escape through the corridors of the airport, being caught by the agents.
The three protagonists of the failed escape had seen their asylum applications refused. They were soon to be repatriated to Mauritania as well as a fourth person, also an illegal immigrant from the same country, in police custody.
The frustrated escape led to a riot of the nearly one hundred immigrants of illegal origin who were in that room in Barajas, during which there were shouts, damage to furniture and physical clashes with the agents in which, fortunately, only minor injuries were recorded.
Continuous leaks
Escapes of illegal immigrants from Barajas airport, with or without success, have been relatively frequent in recent months. Precisely and during the last migration crisis that Madrid airport experienced at the beginning of 2024, 26 illegal immigrants They managed to escape from the asylum and exclusion rooms.
This happened last January, when on the night of Friday 17th of the same month, several Moroccan immigrants escaped from rooms not admitted in Spain. break a window. Only 24 hours before 9 other immigrants did the same in room 4 of terminal 4.
The agents managed to locate the window through which the immigrants fled to the airport runways and from the United Police Union (SUP), returned to the situation of lack of control and overflow that exists at Madrid-Barajas airport with hundreds of people crammed into the rooms intended for controlling illegal immigration due to the passivity of the AENA and the Home office. In fact, it took AENA several days to repair the window through which the last illegal immigrants who had escaped through this place had escaped.
