Padic, Omar, Dame, Era, Bouba, Souffiane and Yassin are left without refuge in Atxondo. The City Hall says that the hostel is in a precarious situation and has health problems, which have closed it to ensure the safety of these people. On the contrary, the Atxondo Harrera Herria network says that the hostel is habitable, that the Saharawi children were there recently, and that they are willing to use the hostel under the responsibility of the members of the Reception, “because the situation is more dignified than being on the street”. For security reasons, the City Hall has argued that “what is not certain is that people are on the red street, without the possibility of welcoming”.

The City Council that governs the PNV responds that it has an agreement with the Basque Government to look for another place for migrants. But for that interval, it has given no alternative. The hostel opened in 2018 to welcome migrants and the members of the Reception are clear: the solution is to reopen that space, “and we will continue to protest until we achieve it”. Precisely, they fear that this new place agreed with the Government is not outside Atxondo.

Until things are clarified, the seven migrants have occupied a place that also has a pressure action: they literally sleep on the porticos of the city hall and the members of the Reception take turns to help them. Moreover, they stress that the people of the town are giving everything and that the neighbors are approaching to eat. However, from the reception they have denounced that they have not received any visit from the authorities, that they have not even approached to ask how they are and that although they spend every day to enter the City Hall, they do not even look. “It is clear that those who leave us on the street do not know what it is to sleep on the street,” said one of those affected in the newspaper Anboto.

Seven people between the ages of 20 and 38 have applied for their reception, receive language classes and are enrolled in the adult school in Durango, to which they go from Atxondo to get the school graduate.