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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