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The Immigrant Internment Center (CIE )in Barcelona closed due to the impossibility of repatriating the inmates.
Given the declaration of the State of Alarm and the restrictions imposed by third countries, the NGOs had once again demanded the release of the inmates
ACN
Barcelona – Thursday, 03/19/2020 | Updated 03/20/2020 – 06:46
The National Spanish Police today finally released the immigrants who remained in the Center for Internment of Foreigners (CIE) in Barcelona, which has now been left empty after obtaining the judicial permission to release its inmates due to the impossibility of expelling them in the coming weeks due to the coronavirus.
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According to police sources, the last inmates, a group of five immigrants, were able to freely leave the CIE of the Barcelona Free Zone on Thursday, in an operation to empty these facilities that had begun in recent days.
Specifically, following the orders of the General Directorate of the Police, those responsible for the CIE of the Free Zone had requested authorization from the judges responsible for the expulsion procedures to release the inmates, given the material impossibility of their deportation. within the maximum period established by law, 60 days from admission, due to transport restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the sources consulted, none of the ICN inmates,had symptoms of suffering from the coronavirus.
Of the last five inmates of the CIE in Barcelona, three of them, arrested due to their irregular situation in Spain, left the center in the morning, while the other last two, who had a sentence commuted in exchange for expulsion from Spain , in the afternoon.
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CIEs: The Spanish Guantánamo
According to the Spanish Government, a Center for the Internment of Foreigners (CIE) is a non-penitentiary public institution where foreigners are subject to expulsion from the national territory, in short, places of detention for foreigners who, as they usually say , “Have no papers”.
However, in practice, and due to lack of regulation and legal regulations, are administrative prisons whose conditions of stay are tougher than the prison itself, where people are interned that without having committed any crime are subjected to a regime Of life harder than those incarcerated accused of a crime.
In the CIEs, overcrowding, inhuman conditions of stay, such as the lack of lavatories in the cells or access to the toilet during the night (having to pee in bottles) and other routine practices of humiliation and mistreatment converge.
Hence, the stay in a CIE (in principle a maximum of 60 days) is much worse than the stay in a prison, and that they are known by the name of the “Spanish Guantanamos”. Even the Supreme Court has questioned the retention of immigrants and the UN, as well as several court sentences, warn of the inhumane conditions of such centers, in some of which sexual abuse networks have been discovered to internal immigrants or have arrived To die persons retained in them as a result of the lack of medical attention.
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Of the total number of Internment Centers for Foreigners, spread throughout the European Union since 1995, we currently find 8 in Spain (Zona Franca in Barcelona, Aluche in Madrid, Zapadores in Valencia, Sangonera la Verde in Murcia, La Piñera in Algeciras, Matorral in Fuerteventura, Barranco Seco in Gran Canaria and Cold Leaf in Tenerife.), All of them under the Ministry of the Interior.
The people detained in them are guarded by the National Police, in most cases, with very little desire to carry out this work and, as we have seen first hand, without interpreters and with little information on the operation of them.
Who we work in activities of support to the migrants, we have come to find relatives of disoriented and desperate detainees stumbling from city to city trying to find out where is held mother, spouse or child, without receiving any kind of explanatory response by Part of those who work in the CIE.
And the CIEs turn into black holes where people who, due to arbitrary and racist identity checks (due to skin color or certain physical features) disappear, are stopped in the middle of the street in violation of the basic principles set out in the Spanish Constitution And International Treaties.
The terrible situation that is occurring with the expulsion of foreigners who are detained, detained in the Internment Centers for foreigners (CIEs) and expelled on special flights.
They are only interested in using the migrant population politically and commercially. Indeed, detention and deportation of foreigners by the police on many occasions have more to do with the agreements established with the countries of origin and with the existence of so-called “macro flights” than with any other type of motivation .
More and more these types of expulsions consist of a plane trip reserved only to people who will be forcibly repatriated to their continent of origin. As some groups of foreigners denounce, “sometimes these flights leave passengers in places that are not their countries of origin, but only their continent.
They are transferred there against their will, using violence and coercive methods of all kinds, even taking them to countries where they have no ties, no money and no resources.
Behind these “macro flights”, with destinations such as Senegal, Ecuador, Nigeria, Morocco or Colombia, there are millionaire deals with companies such as Swiftair or Globalia (Viajes Ecuador, Falcón Viajes, Touring Club And Air Europa).
As they have denounced groups and activists members of the Campaign for the closure of the CIEs, there are selective raids by the police, uniformed or secret, in search of irregular immigrants of a nationality determined days before the departure of a flight, as they point The above mentioned groups “to facilitate the work of expulsion to these airlines”.
“Despite the numerous statements against trafficking in human beings and illegal immigration, we find once again that European companies themselves, from the private management of borders to satellite companies, do business With the criminalization of poverty. ”
César Manzanos Bilbao
Doctor in Sociology, collaborator in the campaign for the closure of the CIEs
see also:
http://www.grupotortuga.com/CIEs-Los-Guantanamo-espanoles
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Cerrado el CIE de Barcelona por la imposibilidad de repatriar a los internos
Ante la declaración del Estado de Alarma y ante las restricciones impuestas por terceros países las oenegés han exigido la puesta en libertad de los internos
ACN Barcelona – Jueves, 19/03/2020 | Actualizada 20/03/2020 – 06:46
La Policía Nacional ha dejado salir hoy a los inmigrantes que permanecían en el Centro de Internamiento de Extranjeros (CIE) de Barcelona, que ha quedado vacío tras obtener el permiso judicial para liberar a sus internos ante la imposibilidad de expulsarlos en las próximas semanas por el coronavirus, según ha adelantado eldiario.es.
Según han informado fuentes policiales, los últimos internos, un grupo de cinco inmigrantes, han podido abandonar este jueves libremente el CIE de la Zona Franca de Barcelona, en una operación de vaciado de estas instalaciones que se había iniciado en los últimos días.
En concreto, siguiendo las órdenes de la Dirección General de la Policía, los responsables del CIE de la Zona Franca había pedido autorización a los jueces responsables de los trámites de expulsión para dejar en libertad a los internos, ante la imposibilidad material de que fueran deportados en el plazo máximo fijado por ley, de 60 días desde su ingreso, debido a las restricciones del transporte provocadas por la pandemia del coronavirus. Según las fuentes consultadas, ninguno de los internos del CIE, que pese a que ha quedado vacío sigue abierto, tenía síntomas de sufrir el coronavirus.
De los últimos cinco internos del CIE de Barcelona, tres de ellos, ingresados por su situación irregular en España, han abandonado el centro por la mañana, mientras que los otros dos, a los que se conmutó una condena a cambio de la expulsión de España, por la tarde.
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