BLACK IMMIGRANTS TRANSPORTED IN A GARBAGE TRUCK BY SPANISH AUTHORITY

The inhuman treatment meted by the Spanish security and health authorities to African immigrants under the guise of Ebola scare is worsening every day. Naturally the Spanish do not hide their dislike and discriminatory attitude towards black immigrants. With the outbreak of the Ebola, a deadly virus which Patrick Sawyer and company, an American sowed the seed in African soil, Spain has exhibited a high rate of non - chalant attitude and harsh treatment to black immigrants that show any sign of ill health in their territory. Their approach has been to abandon them to die or stew in their own ruins. 

The most recent incident is the case of 23 black African immigrants who got to the Canary Island of Gran Canarias on their rickety boat on Wednesday November 5, 2014. According to report made available to our Special Correspondent in Spain, the Red Cross volunteers tested their temperature on arrival to the Spanish territory and found out that six among them were running a high fever. The voluntary organization tried to activate their own Ebola protocol which was not adequate. They asked for help from the regional and national health authority. 

The health authorities who hesitated to respond, instead they were blaming each other for the delay and alleging it was each other’s responsibility. It took about 4 hours before health workers arrived to the scene. Police made sure the immigrants were secluded from a distance where nobody got closer to them.

On arrival of the health workers, they asked the immigrants of their origins, demanding to know if they were from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the countries most affected with the virus before they were certified free. The four most serious cases were taken away for medical attention by the Red Cross. While the rest were loaded like guinea pigs in a dirty truck used for garbage loading and cleaning on which they were taken to the police for identification prior to subsequent deportation process.

According to the report, the coordinator of Red Cross complained that a garbage truck was by no means suitable to convey human beings. The mayor of the region responding said that no other four wheel vehicle large enough to carry many people over the beach was available. It could be recalled that a similar incident occurred on October 18, 2014 at the Madrid Barajas airport where a Nigerian was abandoned unattended to for the scare of Ebola until overdose of cocaine drugs he swallowed burst inside his stomach thereby leading to his death. The Spanish authority should be cautioned on their inhuman treatment towards black immigrants in their territory. And not to hide under the scare of Ebola to subject black immigrants to their own peril.