Download the tension at the ‘Barajas’ Hotel

Between six and seven in the morning in the morning who work in Paraguas Airport Those who sleep on the ground woke up. There are about 300 T4 in T4. Before they slept by distributing it by the structure designed by architect Richard Rogers, but for three months they focused on the plant, which is not “arrivals” nor “the exits.” A narrow and short corridor where travelers do not travel and allow access to some logistical offices.

There, Christina Rodriguez, 46, who lived without a mobile phone or e -mail for five months, after she lived in a center for women with women, public shelter and ground from the “Charitable Organization. I was working but the salary did not reach me for rent,” he says he gave a sip to a box of beer. The owner of an incredible and violent story, he is in the case of the street since 2021. Residence at the airport is “Gawi, when they do not steal the car, although we take care of each other. Security is very controlled but educated. “During the day, those who suffer from very tired residence and others will get life,” says Christina, who is intended to take tobacco residue in about 40 pieces collected from cigarette cigarettes and mixed in a box.

Accompanied Security crew T1 He woke up, hundreds of those who extend their bodies over the cartoon and coats, surrounded by their bags and bags. Salvador Mendes says until eight o’clock in the eight o’clock. Then go to T1. “We come through the mouth to the mouth, not to cold in Madrid. Until recently we can sleep all over the airport because we were much lower than people. Salvador, 28, says at the DJ account. Return to Madrid After separating with a couple, he lived with him in Murcia and left a municipal shelter after stealing his property. “Here, none of the harassment and cleaning service tells you anything in the bathrooms. The problem is that you do not have a shower and get the minimum hygiene in the sink. ”

The majority of the homeless leaves the building and go to Paraguas or the Madrid Center, where they usually eat breakfast at first aid points, such as the San Anton Church. In the winter of 2023, there were 190 people sleeping at the three stations, according to official data, and now the Airport Workers Union, ASAE, estimates that there are 500. The law does not protect the evacuation of that public space. “For those who live here, I would like to divide them into four sections: weak people, older and families; They are adaptable and air conditioning who can work immediately in any company even if they continue to live at the airport; Drug addicts or alcoholic addicts who need psychological help; Finally, Salvador, “analyzes Salvador, who will be attacked after a few minutes by one of his colleagues, who pushes him and tries to issue” Fag “, believing that they had taken a picture of his collusion.

Tension grows. “Among the majority of peaceful and good people, people who suffer from drugs and alcohols also live and not only generate battles between them, but they give a lot of discomfort to passengers and workers who begged and asks. Antonio Llarena, ASAE Secretary -General, who asks about “immediate evacuation” is unable to get adequate hygiene, they generate many security problems for airport workers. “The pressure cooker has already exploded. Barajas has exploded. Not to do anything we can find an explosive situation and anything can happen.

Ice tip

Those who wander around the airport choose “check -in” areas, with their property in luggage as luggage. Near the billing meters or cafes tables, they interfere with travelers without attracting attention. There is elegance, like Warner, an American who specializes in rhetoric, who lived for about a year in T1 but prefers not to tell their history and believes that “you have to put on both sides and ownership of the people.

In the humanitarian fund, this problem has become a throw between the central and independent government and its parties, with mutual accusations of inaction. In political DiatryBe, NGOs prefer not to comment: “The situation is particularly sensitive now,” it responds to a recognized religious organization. Another source, one of them explains: “The data will not be made,” and thirdly explains: “We see how the media’s focus is transformed from the real problem, which is the lack of institutional solutions and coordination between departments, to focus on the homeless, and their treatment as a threat. This does not only offer them, and offer them to that.

In addition to being the door of Spain, where more than 50 million passengers enter every year, Barajas is the tip of the giant iceberg of the housing problem. Senhjarabzmo grew 24 % in a decade, without the authorities imposing effective measures to stop them. Nearly 30,000 people need attention in the youth house and social dining rooms in Spanish cities and a quarter of them live in the street, including airport facilities. A third has some disability or mental disorders, all according to INE data, and 76 % of men. The similar barajas ratios indicate the “Solidarity Schedule” survey, with average ages in the 45 and 64 -year -old tape.

Meanwhile, the airport, ANA, measures, some of which are informal, such as eliminating banks-until they do not sleep-and the connection of mobile phones does not bear complaints from the affected. The director confirms that “I warned months ago” to the Madrid City Council for a “position” that presents “the correct performance of the airport’s activity”, and this Thursday increased pressure with “legal requirements” to meet the needs of housing “, while declaring that it would prevent the clip at night for those who do not represent passengers. The boarding card was already required to arrive from the metro from 10 pm, without stopping the flow to the “Barajas Hotel”.

As in the rest of Spain, the displaced people who meet in Paraguas are the Spaniards (26 %) and other nationalities. In Adolfo Suarez – the full name of Madrid facilities – there is Spanish, Latin America, Eastern Europe, British, Ukrainians and North America … many men are more than women.

They are assembled through their profiles, in tribes that always live in guarding. “They do not reach me or my wife because I do not know what to do,” says Al -Mizan, a Colombian man for about 40 years. A worker, with his partner and nephew in Paraguce for six months, when he went to Poland.

“They offered us work, but it was a fraud. When I got here, there was no ticket for Warsaw or these. Al -Mizan, who is waiting for a corner of the “exits” area with a group of people, and most older women and one in a wheelchair, says next to the ten large bags, after 17 hours, 17 hours ago, it will go to the place where they go, now, now 17 hours ago, they will go to the place where they run.

Excitation and uncertainty

While the souls are heated, the exciting press makes its appearance. “What is happening a lot?” Christina Rodriguez asks about cardboard, with one shoe and the other, due to an injury to one of his feet, “when the ballet dance.” TV shows attack the microphone and the camera from several meters to weakness. “They bother us every day. Morning, in the afternoon and night comes to register us. A woman who does not want her name, “Neither my face”, the Spanish who grew up in Cuba, 63, says.

The media roundabout began when the press aroused the alleged scourge of bugs, with “some workers” who condemned bites. ANA denied the presence of “plague”, although he admitted that a “specialized” company found “some insects at very limited and specific points.” However, he said: “You cannot emphasize” that people who have no shelter are “the origin of the bed bug” in an infrastructure where 200,000 people travel daily.

The “technical schedule in the street”, which gathered many NGOs specializing in Sinhazarimo, warns that “a chaotic image of the situation at the airport is transported, and is nurtured by some media speeches that survive.”

And they continue, in a message taking place this weekend: “People who live there and sleep because they have no choice, because they have no better alternative. Because before the current housing crisis and given the shortage of general social protection policies, living in the street or in the place of residence is increasingly common. ”

Those who prefer not to leave, fear uncertainty from the outside, although when the weather improves their trips. “There is” the “good clothes” that leaves the standards “people who are overweight”. “But I don’t want to ignite my situation.” With a waste collection routine from the tables of fast food companies, to eat and drink what I find, Christina says: “I realize that I do not eat well. If I find residue, allow me to take it. I do not ask for money or anything. It is, hundreds of other people, inside the ball that is increasingly warm in a warm game.