Madrid court rejects partial containment measures

A court in Madrid judges the partial closure of the city contrary to fundamental rights -

This Thursday, a high court in Madrid rejected the partial closure of the Spanish capital and nine neighboring municipalities.

Justice estimated that these measures "harmed the rights and fundamental freedoms" of the 4.5 million inhabitants affected by this confinement.

The confinement decision had already been strongly rejected by the local authorities, but after a long standoff, the decree prepared by the Ministry of Health was still passed.

This partial closure came into effect last Friday evening and was imposed by the authorities in an attempt to curb the second wave of Covid-19.

It is not a question of strict confinement as Spain was able to experience it in the spring, but a ban for all inhabitants to enter or leave the city except in particular to go to work, to the doctor or to take them. children at school.

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He intervened after a two-week showdown between the region, flagship of the Popular Party (PP, right), and the central government of the socialist Pedro Sanchez.

"Thank you for the chaos, Pedro Sanchez", tweeted regional president Isabel Diaz Ayuso while the head of the Spanish government had him, underlined from Brussels, "the moment of extraordinary gravity" in which the region finds itself.

The region, which was reluctant to take measures of this scale despite calls from the government, highlighted the very high economic cost of such a partial closure, 8 billion euros per month according to the regional official in charge of justice, Enrique Lopez.

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