Three Asylum Seekers Escape Madrid Airport Through Unfixed Ceiling Hole
7th October 2024
Three Moroccan asylum seekers escaped from a reception room at Madrid’s Barajas Airport on Sunday night, marking the second such incident in just over a week. The individuals were among a group of six asylum seekers waiting for their international protection requests to be processed. While three were apprehended by the National Police, the other three remain at large. This latest escape has further intensified concerns over the deteriorating conditions at the airport’s detention facilities.
The Objective reports that sources from Spain’s Interior Ministry and the police union Jupol said the asylum seekers managed to escape through a hole in the ceiling of one of the airport’s reception rooms, the same breach used by four other Moroccan asylum seekers during a similar escape on October 2nd.
The fact that the hole had not been repaired despite the previous incident has sparked criticism. Ibón Domínguez, a spokesman for Jupol, condemned the situation, saying that “the non-admitted room of Barajas does not meet the minimum conditions of safety and health.”
How convenient.