He First Hortaleza Reception Center (Madrid) It has a capacity of 35 people. Currently, there are 80 residents and they have accommodated up to 100. They are so saturated that they have had to take the toilets out into the street. According to the unions, there are only 11 toilets and 14 showers for minors in care. In addition, the rooms are full of bunk beds where accidents such as the release of halogens occur.
The training rooms, as in other moments of saturation, have been also filling the beds to accommodate more than a hundred minors this summer. “There are children sleeping on the floor”reveals one of the migrants.
The users themselves, mostly from Africa, told Sexta that there are also problems with the food and clothing they receive, which are scarce: “Me for a week with the same clothes”, “Look, look… bad clothes,” say other people staying at the center.
A situation that is also denounced by the NGOs that serve them. Emilia Lozano, president of Somos Asegura: “There are girls here who They didn’t have any underwear They had to be given underwear, pants…”
From the Community of Madrid, they justify themselves by saying that all this fruit of the migration crisis. And with the new opening of another center in Madrid, they will try to unblock the situation.
