Sánchez Ibarluzea, who has his habitual residence in Bilbao, told the local police of Castro Urdiales that, despite everything, he believed he was acting correctly, as stated in the complaint published by several media outlets. Access to the second residence is prohibited since the Government of Spain decreed a state of alarm, but it seems that the chief health emergency officer of Osakidetza was not clear about it.
The agents will, on Tuesday, send the complaint to the Spanish Government delegation in Cantabria for the event of 21 April, and this body will decide whether or not Sánchez Ibarluzea will have to pay the fine.
The Jeltzale politician has been surprised in fraganti by giving the warning to the Local Police of Castro Urdiales of two neighbors on April 20, after movements were recorded in the second house of Sánchez Ibarluzea. When he went to his home, he explained that he had come to the second residence two or three days, as he had to do COVID-19 tests at work and lived with older people. However, Local Police officers informed him that if he was sick, the virus was spreading to the Cantabrian town.
Sánchez Ibarluzea started his political career as a councillor at the Bilbao City Hall and held a seat at the Bizkaia General Boards in 2019 before assuming his high-level position in Basque public health.