Placing 13 tents, capable of housing 20 people each, on a large expanse of concrete without drainage was not a good idea.

With the arrival of the end-of-summer rains, the encampment had a carpet of water several centimetres deep inside and outside the tents, so a decision to move the entire camp is being contemplated.

The Guardia Civil general, Manuel Contreras, inspected the camp together with the Governmental Sub-Delegate for Granada, Inmaculada López and came up with various solutions, one of which was to move the encampment and the other was to reopen the old, permanent installations in the port, which were closed for renovations on the recommendation of the Regional Ombudsman.

But it wasn’t only the rain, but the sun; large tents on 4,800 sq/m of concrete can get unbearable hot inside.

The tent city was never meant to be permanent, anyway; just a temporary measure whilst they modernise the CATE (temporary holding centre) in the port and to free up the municipal stadium that had been used until recently to handle the overspill.

In the meantime the flow of desperate people continues and grows, amongst them a family from Bangladesh. And the flow of drowned bodies doesn’t stop either, with five bodies buried at the municipal cemetery.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia – Photo: Ideal)