The organization of end-of-year trips is forced to distribute food among the students who are forcibly locked up in the Covid Hotel in Palma due to the abandonment suffered by the Balearic Government chaired by the socialist Francina Armengol .
The 175 students, most of them minors, were forcibly taken from their rooms in the Arenal hotel where they were staying and transferred to the so-called Covid Hotel managed by the Government and where it houses visitors who have tested positive in a PCR or are considered close contact of coronavirus carriers. According to the agreement signed by the hotel company, the Government must take charge of the maintenance of the people housed for reasons related to the pandemic and to attend to all their needs.
The massive transfer of students from Andalusia to the Covid Hotel at four in the morning on Sunday was carried out hastily by order of the Government, without parental authorization and without judicial authorization . The Government itself was then totally overwhelmed by this transfer and since then it has been unable to properly attend to the young students who are forcibly locked up in their rooms. It has not even been able to meet basic needs.
Faced with the protest of the students and their parents, the organizer of the trips TFC (Your End of Course Trip) has been forced to buy food and prepared food in markets of the Balearic capital to distribute them among young students due to the passivity of the Left-wing government and the Palma City Council, chaired by the also socialist José Hila . The City Council and the Government are in the hands of the tripartite formed by the PSOE, United We Can and the sovereignists of Més.
TFC, which, according to the parents, has been attending to the students at all times, especially minors, has also been forced to assume other basic needs of the students such as medicines, hygienic material, compresses, and special foods. especially lactose-free milk. Both the students and their parents recognize that the Government provides them with food but of poor quality and insufficient.
As OKDIARIO has already published, the students claim to feel totally abandoned by the Balearic Executive, a complaint that has also been made by parents who are now organizing themselves in a WhatsApp group.
For many of the students an added problem is that they do not have a computer to formalize the enrollment for the Selectividad with the intention of improving the grade, a test that in Andalusia is held on July 2. Others are unable to apply for pre-registration at the university and a large group is registered to take the entrance exams to the Armed Forces.
Complaints from Vox and PP
The deputy and parliamentary spokesman for Vox, Jorge Campos , has once again accused the Government of carrying out “illegal actions” in the management of the ‘macro outbreak’. He has said that the confinement of minors “is not supported by any state of alarm or exception nor does it have the authorization of a judge or parents.”
In this sense, Campos has assured that the adolescents confined in the Hotel Covid de Palma “were taken from their rooms at dawn and held against their will and that of their parents.” In addition, he pointed out that the vast majority of these young people “have no relationship with the ‘macro outbreak'”.
Campos considers that the Government has committed “one nonsense after another .” “First, he forcibly removed the students from their rooms in the wee hours of the morning without parental permission and without a court order, and then he keeps them confined despite having negative CRP and despite not having had contact with any group risky”.
The Vox leader assures that “everything that the Government has done on this issue is illegal” and adds that the party’s jurists are studying the presentation of an unconstitutionality appeal for the “illegal retention of minors.”
Meanwhile, the deputy and spokesman of the Popular Group in the Balearic Parliament, Toni Costa , has demanded this Tuesday the Government, the dismissal of the people who authorized the reggaeton concert in the Plaza de Toros de Palma, to which a file has been opened after be considered one of the situations that could have caused the contagion of young students on end-of-year trips to the island of Mallorca, which have led to a ‘macro outbreak’.
According to Toni Costa “the Covid-19 macro outbreak that already affects 1,200 young people in Spain and 5,000 people in quarantine is an extremely serious situation that has occurred after the Balearic Islands gave health authorization for the macro concert with thousands of people in the Plaza de Toros de Palma ». “Having authorized this concert is extremely irresponsible, especially after having obtained warnings from police officers and emergency technicians,” added Costa, who has stressed that “the Government is responsible for this situation.” For this reason, he has demanded the dismissal of the people who authorized the reggaeton concert in the Plaza de Toros.
