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Exclusive: Dispatch from the ‘homeless city’ hidden inside Spain’s biggest airport

While rough sleepers are nothing new at the travel hub, their numbers over the past 10 years have ballooned from around 50 to almost 500. 

Laurence Dollimore
‘This looks like a disaster zone’, I heard a tourist mutter under her breath as she carted her suitcases out of the arrivals hall.  The holidaymaker had just arrived at Madrid-Barajas airport, where up to 500 homeless people are living in a s

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