Isabel Díaz Ayuso is once again in the spotlight of current politics due to her opinions and visions on immigration. The president of the Community of Madrid has had to acknowledge that she linked, without additional information, the sexual assault that occurred in a detention center in Alcalá de Henares to a group of 1,200 immigrants transferred there. Some words that come in the midst of the chaos and confusion of a situation that has gotten out of control.
One of the many programs that has echoed this notorious incident has been El Hormiguero. The program presented by Pablo Motos has dedicated a few minutes of his current affairs talk to talk about what happened in Alcalá with Cristina Pardo, Tamara Falcó, Núria Roca and Juan de Val. Indeed, the Marchioness of Griñón left one of the outstanding comments of the night.
Regarding the alleged sexual assault reported at the Shelter, Emergency and Referral Center (CAED), located in the Primo de Rivera barracks, Falcó has regretted that better management could not be carried out in order to avoid it, without going into the possible controversies and connections of Ayuso. Juan de Val, for his part, has considered that the president’s connection is a case of “dangerous” populism, and that it should be avoided to avoid generating greater evils.
It all started with a letter sent to Ayuso from the general secretary of the Spanish Immigration and Refugee Assistance Network, Rafael Escudero. In it, he exposed the conditions and “continued mistreatment” that the 1,200 immigrants transferred to Alcalá de Henares suffered. Several of the reported practices include marking people with a pen, strict exit controls, and “absolutely poor” nutrition and integration processes.
Escudero also pointed out that the Ministry gave the order to progressively empty the center, leaving 300 people stranded who should immediately ask the Community of Madrid itself for help. The secretary even went so far as to point out that minors had been admitted to this center without knowledge, due to the lack of prior triage by the place. This was added to the irregularities coming from the Canary Islands, where they came from.
“The Network, as your government knows, is the only state entity that, after traveling to the Canary Islands, stated that a relocation process cannot be carried out without planning, economic means, provision to the autonomous communities for the impact on Social Services and that In addition, it alerted all the autonomous communities of this situation in writing,” Escudero explained in his letter.
