The general director of Public Health of the Balearic Government,
Maria Antònia Font
, has been summoned by a Palma court to
testify as an investigator for the compulsory confinement of young people
on study trips who had had contacts with infected with
covid-19
.
As confirmed by the Balearic Government, Font has been summoned by the
12th investigating court of
the Balearic capital to give a statement as
a result of a complaint by relatives of confined young people
in which he is attributed the
crime of illegal detention
.
The general director of Public Health
was the one who signed the instruction of the Ministry of Health to confine all students
who were considered close contacts of other young people who had tested positive for coronavirus with whom they had shared leisure activities.
The Government
entered about 175 young people
in these circumstances at the
Bellver hotel
on the
seafront in Palma
until a contentious court overturned the order on the
grounds that the measure restricting his freedom of movement was not sufficiently justified.
The next day most of them left the hotel and traveled by boat to Valencia to go to the different places on the peninsula from which they came.
The Government considers that the action was proportionate
The Ministry of Health, which, like the Government as a whole,
defended the forced isolation
of young people, has indicated after hearing the accusation of the general director of its "respect for all the actions of the judiciary" and has made itself "available" to the examining judge.
"This is compatible with the defense and support of the action of the General Directorate of Public Health," he says in a statement in which he insists on defending the way he addressed "the macro outbreak of infections" in the last days of June.
"
The Government considers that the action was proportionate
and always attending to a fundamental criterion for this administration: the defense and protection of the population," the regional department of Health says.
He also recalls that other judges denied the
habeas corpus
petitions of
some of the young people in quarantine and emphasizes that the analyzes carried out on those groups both in Mallorca and when they returned to the peninsula, with high levels of positives, confirm that the action was correct. .
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