{"id":120495,"date":"2023-10-29T08:29:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/?p=120495"},"modified":"2023-10-29T08:29:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T08:29:36","slug":"the-town-where-migrants-suddenly-arrived-and-were-welcomed-with-open-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leviolonrouge.com\/world-news\/the-town-where-migrants-suddenly-arrived-and-were-welcomed-with-open-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"The town where migrants suddenly arrived and were welcomed with open arms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The arrival of more than 200 migrants in a town in northwestern Spain sparked curiosity, controversy and interest among locals and officials.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, 183 migrants found accommodation in a spa resort at Medina del Campo, a town part of the Valladolid province in the landlocked Castile and Leon autonomous community.<\/p>\n

The following day, they were joined by 67 more people who had fled their homelands.<\/p>\n

Their arrival and stay at the Hotel Balneario Palacio De Las Salinas – which features more than 5,000-square-metre facilities and lavish gardens – divided opinions in Medina del Campo, which is home to more than 20,500 residents.<\/p>\n

One local 60-year-old suggested he was not seeing in a positive light the arrival of the migrants in his town, as he told Spanish publication El Espanol: “If I say what I think, they will take me to jail. I’ve seen them playing football and they don’t look unwell.”<\/p>\n

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Another person lashed out at the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, arguing he should “take them to La Moncloa” – his official residence and office in Madrid.<\/p>\n

Others, however, expressed their desire to hold out their hands to the migrants, with one local named Isabel saying: “They don’t bother anyone and we have to give them a hand.”<\/p>\n

Ricardo, similarly, added: “We have to help and be human, they are people who need help and that is the only thing we have to consider, not where they come from.”<\/p>\n

Their stay in the spa resport is expected not to last more than 30 days.<\/p>\n

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