A huge row over a reported bedbug infestation at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport has erupted between a police union and the company managing Spanish air hubs. Previous reports alleged bedbugs had arrived in Terminal 4 at the Madrid airport. New reports claim the infestation has now spread to Terminal 1, reaching the men’s changing rooms of the National Police.
The Jupol union, representing the majority in the Spanish National Police, has raised the alarm to local news outlet OKDIARIO, denouncing the “unacceptable health situation” it claims the officers are suffering and with “the danger of carrying them in their clothes and also taking the plague to their homes”. According to Jupol, national police officers have been alerting the airport to this problem for several weeks, after detecting bedbugs in “the benches, lockers, walls and ceilings of the changing rooms”, where they change clothes and rest during their shifts. However, the union claims that the complaints “have been ignored by airport officials, who have chosen to look the other way instead of acting urgently and effectively”.
