The First Plane Left to Repatriate the Spanish From Afghanistan

The first A400M aircraft of the Armed Forces that will fly from Spain to Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to participate in the first phase of repatriation of embassy personnel and of the Spaniards who remain in Afghanistan He left this Monday from the Zaragoza Air Base.

On the flight travels a group of soldiers from the CIMIC battalion of the Spanish Army and the Air Deployment Support Squadron (EADA) of the Spanish Air Force, which will be in charge of the evacuation operation of the Spaniards and Afghans who for years have collaborated with Spain and his relatives.

The second A400M aircraft will do so, from the same base, tomorrow, Tuesday at 09:00 in the morning.

Sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have explained to EFE that in a first phase the planes will arrive at Dubai and then go to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. The same sources have not specified when the planes are scheduled to arrive at their final destination.

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At the moment, the staff of the Spanish embassy in Afghanistan, the police officers in charge of their security and the other Spaniards who remain in the Asian country are at the airport of Accept waiting to be repatriated.

The chaos unleashed at the airfield in recent hours in the presence of thousands of people trying to flee has made it difficult for the planes to leave.

This tense situation and the Taliban’s controls in the city have made it difficult for the Afghans and their families that Spain is to evacuate from being able to travel to the Kabul airport.

The Spanish Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, said this Monday that the objective is for the transfer to take place “as soon as possible”, although he has admitted that it is a “complicated and complex” operation.

Spain has offered the EU and NATO help to also transfer to Spain from Accept to staff of these two organizations.