The vice president of the Government of the Balearic Islands and magistrate on leave of absence, Juan Pedro Yllanes , has charged against the order of the judge that prevents the forced confinement of the students of the macro outbreak in Mallorca who have tested negative for Covid, ensuring that the decision «endangers all the health policy of Spain.
With this forcefulness the councilor has expressed himself on the decision of the Court not to ratify the confinement of those students who have tested negative or have not undergone a test.
Yllanes has indicated that the Government abides by the decision, despite disagreeing “absolutely” with its merits, and has advanced that it will appeal it before the Superior Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB). However, the resolution already takes effect from this Wednesday and this implies that some 180 young people can leave the Covid hotel if they wish.
The Contentious-Administrative Court number 3 of Palma demolishes the forced confinement to which the Government of the socialist Francina Armengol has decided to subject more than two hundred students affected by a macro outbreak of coronavirus related to end-of-year trips to Mallorca after that the Prosecutor’s Office show its rejection of this decision. The court decision only protects the confinement of infected students who have tested positive for Covid.
According to the resolution, in the case of young people who have tested negative or have not undergone the test, the measure adopted by the Administration is not considered proportionate by limiting a fundamental right.
On the other hand, the judge requires the Balearic Government to inform the court every five days of the evolution in the situation of each of the people affected by the measure, in order to review their status and the need, where appropriate, of its maintenance.
In total there are 249 students who have been isolated at the Palma Bellver hotel for several days. The Government of the Balearic Islands enabled it as a ‘bridge hotel’ for quarantines of positives or close contacts of people who do not have residence on the island.
The Justice of Palma finally agrees with the dozens of parents who had filed a ‘habeas corpus’ before the court on duty for possible illegal detention of their children in the medicalized hotel and that was initially rejected. The Court argued that it was “an income recommended by the health authorities” and that, therefore, it was not “facing an alleged illegal detention.”
