The operation, according to the unions of the Department of Security, was 22 agents, although it gives the impression that many more has been mobilized. This formula will be applied daily until 5 in the morning when the subway and the Renfe reopened.
Before the scheduled time, around 20.00, at the exit of the Metro of Terminal 1, 2 and 3 there were already 6 security guards arranged in a row as if they were a retaining wall. “Do you know what you have to do?” He asked the person in charge of one of his agents. “Yes, be educated but blunt, if they don’t have a boarding card, it was,” the other replied. The truth is that incidents have barely registered. A good part of homeless people have been foreseen and arrived in Barajas before the curfew.
“We were warned. The problem is that they now force us to decide between eating and sleeping. If dinner gives us at half past seven, we arrive very fair, that’s why many people have not come,” Marcelo Montoya laments inside the T-2 after accessing a trucada door that he himself was in charge of discovering the previous night in view of the restrictions. The man explains that he has become a person who “goes from a line in a row.” After all day walking, Marcelo is placed at five in the afternoon in the tail of the Ave Maria church, in the Plaza de Jacinto Benavente, usually in third or fourth position. Once he enters, he grabs the sandwich that the religious give him and runs to the low slide, where he gets to wait again.
As Marcelo explains, at half past seven he opens the ban again and there collects another snack, one that will take him to his “roommate”, an Argentine who sleeps inside a kind of cardboard shell. This Wednesday, Marcelo has renounced this second food for fear of not arriving on time, so that instead of having a snack for each one, the couple will share the only one who has achieved. “In this they are doing us, malice is noticed. I don’t know who or who, but are full of evil,” he denounces while looking after the crystals. “I because I have worried about finding the holes. If not, where are you going? Luckily, since I am here I have tried to find all possible outputs, in case I have to flee from a fire, a brawl, a bomb … more important than entering is knowing how to get out of here,” he says.
Other regular homeless people begin to appear next to him. Many appear on ordinary roads, others have found secondary doors such as Marcelo, entrances by parking, emergency exits. There is a couple, two men in about 60 years, who boast of having forcibly entered the control of the subway. “We have told you that before we throw us, the law has to be learned. Do not fuck you! That this is my house,” says the one who says he is called Fernando.
Throughout the day, an important expectation has been perceived. In addition to the media, many AENA workers who did not have as their mission control the accesses have been mobilized for the occasion. The importance that Aena has given this Wednesday was such that during the morning a company member called Gaspar García, coordinator of the project takes off the Bokatas Association, who has been attending for 10 years to the homeless people of the airport. Garcia’s mission has been essence to witness and see that everyone was fine. With discretion he has walked through the four terminals, analyzing where the accesses were and talking with some of the usual ones, who for days have contacted him on the phone to ask what was true in the news that could be read in the press. “Is this of Barajas end? Are you going to throw us away?” He says they consulted him. “What I see are sad people. People who first removed the plugs, then removed their seats, then cornered them, and now they take away a roof. What they have is what you see. The tension and stress they accumulate is very large. Above all, they are vulnerable people,” he reflects.
In terminal 4, where the greatest number of people concentrated, on floor 1 can barely see 30 or 40 bodies thrown and wrapped in the ground. One of those in charge of executing the filter is Eduardo – a fictional name – a vigilante of about 35 years located in the meter lathes. Eduardo, with great education, explains almost in whispers, without looking almost at his interlocutor, which without safe -conduct “must turn around.” The man, who came to sleep after 11 at night, accepts defeat and returns the subway. Eduardo is thoughtful on the surface. It seems to be doing something that you don’t like too much when you comment:
“I hope this is not for pleasure.” Doing doing one or two days has no effect, it will have to be consecutive. For these people the airport is their home, it is as if we had evicted them. I at least try to do it with education.
