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  • Map: This is how the coronavirus cases have evolved in Spain. The state of alarm for the coronavirus will extend for 15 more days. The chief executive, Pedro Sánchez, in the videoconference meeting he holds with the regional presidents this Sunday, has informed them that his purpose is to extend the alarm statement for another two weeks, until April 12, according to sources

This Monday morning, a plane was scheduled to take off from Madrid to Mauritania in which 15 people were to be deported and which required a deployment of 30 police officers who had to accompany the deported persons on the aircraft. A circumstance that had generated discomfort and disagreement in the police force, both for the fact of undertaking a deportation flight in the midst of the coronavirus crisis and for the lack of information on the health of the deportees. The situation caused by the Covid-19 and the police pressure have led to this Sunday having decided to suspend the deportation.

The operation to carry out the deportation of 15 people from the Aluche Internment Center (CIE) in Aluche (Madrid) had surprised the agents, as this newspaper has found. First, because they complained about the contrast of the situation with respect to Barcelona , where the National Police, after obtaining judicial permission, made the decision to release all the immigrants who remained in this CIE due to the impossibility of expelling them.

Secondly, the sources consulted indicate that they did not understand the rush to carry out the deportation, "there was no need." In addition, among the agents, he had become angry at the lack of information regarding the deported people, since they had not been given information regarding their health status, in the midst of the expansion of the coronavirus and given the circumstance that a month ago there had been a case of tuberculosis at the CIE in Aluche that forced the inmates to be quarantined.

In addition, the officers complained about the lack of materials such as masks and gloves. Some of the agents have these protections but because they had bought them personally, according to the sources consulted.

The idea is that the deportation flight would serve to transfer to their return to Spaniards who are in Mauritania .

It should be remembered that the people who remain in the CIE do so once a sanctioning file has been initiated in which the expulsion from Spanish territory can be proposed and after the instructor has asked the competent Investigating Judge to order the entry of the foreigner in an internment center, while the processing of said file is carried out.

The internment will be kept for the time necessary for the purposes of the file, its maximum duration being 60 days, and no new internment can be agreed for any of the causes provided for in the same file.

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