A first estimate puts the economic damage at at least 1.7 million euros
MADRID, 27 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The National Court has offered the State Attorney’s Office to appear in the case in which Tsunami Democràtic is being investigated for its role in the riots that followed the ruling of the Supreme Court that condemned the leaders of the Catalan independence ‘procés’ in the autumn of 2019 for the “damages caused” in the incidents at El Prat airport.
This is clear from a planning procedure from last Friday, to which Europa Press has had access, in which reference is made to the events that occurred on October 14, 2019 in the aforementioned infrastructure.
Precisely this Monday, Judge Manuel García Castellón recounted what happened that day in one of his resolutions. Everything would have started through a call from Tsunami Democràtic on social networks: “Everyone to the airport.” An appeal, he details, that resulted in the arrival of 8,000 protesters to the El Prat facilities with the aim of “stopping the activity at the Barcelona airport.”
The head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 echoes the police reports received, according to which, “the entry and exit of people from Terminal 1 vehicles was blocked so much,” that “it was completely unusable.” He details that “the assailants accessed the boarding area, managed to settle in front of the doors to access the planes, preventing passengers from accessing them, and managed to block the El Prat air control tower.”
Regarding the latter, he emphasizes that, if the security forces had not managed to clear road access to the air traffic control tower, an action with which the protesters intended to prevent the replacement of the air traffic controllers, “a danger could have been caused to the safety of national and international air traffic”.
On the other hand, the instructor refers to the economic damages caused by ‘Tsunami Democràtic’, estimating them at at least 1,793,018.25 euros, based on the assessments sent by the Ministry of Transport and the airlines themselves to the National Court. .
Of these, “Vueling was the most affected”, with an economic damage of 978,000 euros, for the 169 flights canceled that day, to which are added the 815,018.25 euros indicated by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda for the material damage and loss of profits, although it points out that AENA raised that figure to 1,217,595 euros.
