Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel will pay a visit to the military camp where refugees from Kabul are being housed with Pedro Sánchez.
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The highest European authorities will pay a visit to Afghan refugees who were evacuated from Kabul in the first flights chartered by Spain and are now staying in the Torrejón de Ardoz military airport's provisional camp in Madrid, waiting to be placed in centers hosted by the Spanish State and other European Union countries.
According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula Von del Layer, will tour the military camp facilities with the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who has been at the forefront of the crisis since yesterday.
As a preliminary step to being transferred to other European Union countries, Spain has taken on the role of establishing a temporary reception center for Afghan collaborators and their families who have been evacuated due to the risk to which they are exposed following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. "Torrejón will be the logistics center of Europe (...) And it will be the center of Europe's values: human, close and defending its values," Albares added.
According to José Luis Escrivá, Minister of Social Security and Migration, the goal is for those evacuated from Afghanistan to stay no more than 72 hours in the complex, during which time they can declare their desire for a nation. go, and the problem of bureaucratic inefficiency is solved. "In the hub (logistics center) a temporary entry permit is given and the rest of the countries that receive it will give the asylum status," Albares confirmed.
Only a dozen of the 100 Afghans who were evacuated on two flights on Thursday have claimed international protection in Spain at this time. According to Albares, the government has committed to hosting "50 Afghan refugees throughout the process," A second Spanish jet took out from Kabul on Friday morning, carrying another 110 passengers.
The Military Emergency Unit (UME) constructed family modules with a capacity of 500 people for the women and children, while the men were accommodated in two rooms with a capacity of 200 people in bunk beds. There is air conditioning in every room.
These facilities, according to sources from the ministry led by Escrivá, contain places for youngsters to play games and relax, as well as others for families to recuperate and rest until they leave the facilities bound for the reception area that they are given. will allocate in the protection system.
Although they are not included in this gadget, sources from the Ministry of Social Rights, directed by Ione Belarra, told the same news agency that they have been made accessible to those departments in case they were of assistance in areas of care for kids, women, and other vulnerable persons.
Torrejón's gadget is built around a protocolized circuit for families that includes an identity area, antigen testing and referral circuits in instances of positive for covid (though all have been negative for the time being), and information on asylum and health care procedures.
There is also a dining room for 200 people, as well as a bathroom and shower facility, as well as an entertainment area for kids and adults, in the temporary transit facilities.
The gadget, which is enabled by state security forces and bodies, provides monitoring and protection for the whole enclosure.
Following customized consultations with families, the Secretary of State for Migration has permitted an agile approach for the selection of the most suitable area for evacuees to dwell, based on the makeup of family units, vulnerabilities, and special requirements.
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Torrejón de Ardoz
Torrejón de Ardoz is a municipality in the Madrid autonomous community.
History of Torrejón de Ardoz
There is no certainty about the town's age, but it appears that the settlement and foundation of the population nucleus occurred around the beginning of the 12th century, when it was born under the protection of the fortification that Alcalá residents had to build to establish themselves in the area. The Muslim invasion in 711 resulted in the takeover of the Iberian site, necessitating the reconquest and repopulation of these areas. Because the Reconquest lasted so long, the villages will be accompanied by the sounds of warfare.In the year 1118, the Christians, led by Alfonso VII, reclaimed Alcalá and its lands, which included the Torrejón frontier fortress.
Torrejón was a component of the Archbishopric of Toledo's ecclesiastical estate. The most significant town was Alcalá, and Torrejón was merely one of Alcalá's 'places' or 'land' that was administratively and legally dependent on it. It is not until the middle of the 16th century that the residents of Torrejón (214 neighbors) see the necessity to break away from Alcalá. They cite factors such as the almost two-league distance from Alcalá, the scarcity of their own resources, and the ascent of particular families.
As a result, they request a Letter of Privilege from King Carlos I through the Archbishopric of Toledo. On September 6, 1554, this letter of privilege, 'written on leather parchment and sealed with a pendant lead in colorful silk borders,' was presented at Valladolid, where the monarchy's court was at the time. Cesa's domains of Alcalá and Torrejón became directly dependent on Toledo's Archbishop's Dignity. Torrejón transforms from a 'place' to a Villa.
Some nobles attempted to purchase the town in 1574, already during Felipe II's rule. Torrejón's people, aware of this, and understanding that they did not wish to belong to any lord, petitioned the King for compassion, requesting that the town be included into the Crown and Royal Heritage and removed from the Archbishopric of Toledo's jurisdiction.
The ordinary mayor of the town, Juan de Mesa, made the request. The Crown, in need of funds to support its armies, agrees to the residents of Torrejón's request, thanks to a license granted by Pope Gregory XIII, which allows the King to 'dismember and perpetually set aside some villas and other property belonging in any way to which want churches... convents and dignities...'
On the first day of the year 1575, the King remains the only ruler and proprietor of the town, and a Power of Attorney is given on June 24 of the same year (after completing the payments of the amounts imposed by the purchase of the jurisdiction). With the exception of some holdings in the Soto de Aldovea, which would continue to belong to the Archbishop's Dignity of Toledo until the 19th century, the Villa de Torrejón de Ardoz is unconnected to the Archbishopric.
Torrejón is listed as belonging to the province and territorial audience of Madrid, judicial district of Alcalá de Henares, captaincy general of Castilla la Nueva, diocese of Toledo in Pascual Madoz's Geographical, Statistical, Historical Dictionary of Spain from the mid-nineteenth century. The answer can be found in Javier de Burgos' territorial design for provinces. This administrative division was finalized in 1834 when the provinces were divided into judicial parties, a political-administrative structure that lasted throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Until long into the twentieth century, Torrejón de Ardoz's population was mostly agricultural and livestock-based, with little in the way of industry or trade. In the 1940s, major projects in the municipality began, such as the construction of the Automobile Base and the National Institute of Aeronautical Technology's experimental field; in the 1950s, the North American Air Base began to operate. A new working class, made up of construction workers and employees, is gaining power. The industrial estates were built starting in 1970, and where there used to be orchards, today there are apartment units. The social and economic climate started to shift.