The Prosecutor’s Office has opposed this Tuesday the forced confinement imposed by the Government chaired by Francina Armengol for isolated students at the Palma Bellver hotel due to the macro outbreak of Covid associated with end-of-year trips in Mallorca.
In a letter presented this Tuesday, to which EP has had access, the Prosecutor’s Office has requested the Administrative Litigation Court number 3 of Palma not to ratify the resolution of the general director by which the forced confinement in solitary confinement was ordered, in police custody, of more than 200 students.
The Office of the Prosecutor considers that the measures adopted by the General Directorate of Public Health in the face of the macro outbreak “are not fully justified or proportionate in accordance with current legislation.”
The Public Ministry clarifies that it is not questioned that young people have been able to maintain contact with positives, but points out that the resolution of the Ministry considers affected students to be suspicious of contact “in a general, presumptive and indeterminate way.”
In addition, it refers only to them when “there is no evidence” that in the establishments where it is believed that the infections occurred “only young students were staying,” he alleges. “It is strange that other groups such as workers in hotel or leisure establishments or other clients who enjoyed those hotels or leisure places were not considered suspects or contacts,” argues the prosecutor.
In this sense, the Prosecutor’s Office questions that the resolution of the General Directorate “does not specify or specify in a clear or direct way” any of the students, without making references to the particular situation of each of them, such as the date of arrival, period of stay on the island, group to which it belonged, activities carried out or the hotel in which they stayed.
“That is to say, it is unknown (…) whether they actually maintained real contact or with what intensity with the specific people whose confinement it is intended to ratify,” says the Public Ministry.
The prosecutor points out that the seriousness of the situation is not questioned, but calls into question the proportionality of the measure, when “the resolution itself indicates that for the moment all the cases have been asymptomatic or mild and that none have required hospitalization ».
Finally, he criticizes that the Government’s order makes mention of “young students” but without mentioning that several of them may be minors, taking into account the possible intervention of parents or legal guardians when adopting restrictive measures regarding their rights and freedoms. .
On the other hand, the judges are rejecting the habeas corpus that the parents of several minors are presenting in different courts in Palma.
