The decision of the airport manager, Aena, to limit access to people syntheson at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport has become a reality. It was warned last week by its president, Maurici Lucena, at a press conference and yesterday made the decision in a statement public. The objective is that the City Council of the capital be responsible for the people who spend the night at the airfield and social services facilities seek housing solutions. To do this, he has sent a legal requirement to the Consistory raising the situation. It is estimated that until this week between 300 and 400 people every night they went to Barajas to spend the night. But in February, up to 500 vulnerable people were counted. For days, posters hung in the subway station that it is necessary to have a boarding card to access T1 and the T2. In addition, a security guard has been placed in that area as a deterrent. It is a problem entailed since the beginning of the year among the three administrations. Some meetings have been held, but the City Council of the Capital and the Community of Madrid continue to insist that it is the responsibility of the central government and vice versa. Today, San Isidro’s Day in the capital, politicians again launch darts and disagree on the measure taken firm by Aena. Contrary positions The delegate of the Government in Madrid, Francisco Martín, has trusted that the Madrid City Council, “once and for all, assume their responsibility and find solutions for homeless people who, unfortunately, have had to find refuge in the airport” Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas, which cannot become “the municipal shelter”. Lee also Martín has assured that “the central government has been present at all the technical tables that have been organized in this regard and we have offered collaboration with the City Council, which has not been possible to realize because the Consistory has not begun to take action on the matter.” He has reiterated the offer of collaboration “to the extent of our possibilities”, although he has insisted that “the competition” in the matters of social services is from the Madrid City Council. For his part, the spokesman of the PP in the Assembly of Madrid, Carlos Díaz-Pache, sees a “patch” Aena’s decision to “close” decks in certain time slots, something that has also reproached the regional spokeswoman of MAS MADE Madrid, Manuela Berger. More Madrid, in fact, has registered an initiative in the Madrid Assembly so that the three administrations involved – helping, community and Aena – seek an “immediate” solution to the problem that is being lived in Barajas. Other Madrid politicians, such as Javier Ortega Smith (Vox), do see with good eyes that Aena will limit in “some time slots” access to the airport terminals so that only people can pass by people with a shipping card, their accompanying and the workers of Barajas. The institutional act that the Madrid City Council has celebrated at the Palacio de Cibeles for San Isidro’s Day has been this Thursday stage to exhibit the confrontation between institutions and parties that has arisen in account of the attention that should be paid, and who has to do so, to people withouthogar installed at the Barajas airport. A problem that has been thus since the beginning of the year, but that a consensual solution is not achieved.
