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The Prosecutor's Office is currently investigating through criminal proceedings a total of 86 nursing homes located in different parts of Spain for the deaths of hundreds of elders. According to fiscal sources, these investigative measures have been initiated as a result of complaints filed by relatives and workers of the centers themselves during the coronavirus health crisis.

This is the Community of Madrid and Catalonia, where the largest number of residences -public, private or mixed management- are being investigated. In the Madrid region, the management of a total of 40 centers -located in the capital Madrid and other locations- is investigated, while in Catalonia proceedings have been opened on 18 residences in the province of Barcelona, ​​one in Lérida and the other in Tarragona .

In addition, a residence in Zaragoza ( Aragon ) and another in Arrrecife-Puerto del Rosario ( Canary Islands ) are under the magnifying glass of the Fiscal Ministry . In Castilla-La Mancha a center in Albacete, three in Ciudad Real and a residence in Toledo are investigated, while in Castilla y León seven centers located in the provinces of Soria, Salamanca, León and Valladolid are investigated. In Galicia , five investigative procedures are open, corresponding to nursing homes located in Lugo, Orense and Pontevedra, while in La Rioja a senior center is also being investigated. Finally, in Extremadura , between Cáceres and Badajoz, five proceedings have been initiated for the contagion by Covid-19 of the elderly.

126 civil files

In Spain there are approximately 5,457 residences, between public and private, according to data provided by the Public Prosecutor's Office updated on April 20. Along with the incipient criminal investigations, currently 126 follow-up files are being opened through civil channels for the protection of the elderly.

In these files, processed by the provincial prosecutors 'offices and the superior prosecutors' offices of the autonomous communities, data are collected about the situation in "specific problems" that require the intervention or impulse of the prosecutor's protective work.

In this case, Catalonia is the autonomy that accumulates the most civil proceedings with a total of 50, well above the following communities on the list, Castilla y León, with 15; and Galicia, with 11. The Andalusian Prosecutor's Offices register 10 open civil files, one more than the Valencian Community; while 8 are developed in Castilla La-Mancha; 7 in Extremadura, 4 in Madrid; 3 in Aragon and many others in Cantabria; 2 in the Canary Islands; and 1 in La Rioja, Navarra, Murcia and the Basque Country. The Public Prosecutor's Office updates the data on nursing homes every week.

According to EL MUNDO, more than 11,300 people have died in residences due to the coronavirus or symptoms compatible with the disease since the start of the pandemic in Spain, according to information gathered from the corresponding councils in each autonomous community.

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