VALENCIA. The City of Justice of Valencia He begins to prepare for the avalanche of citizens who, once they are out of the confinement phases, will populate their corridors. The Ministry of Justice is implementing a series of security measures to prevent, as far as possible, the virus from spreading in a place where around 15,000 people pass each day and more than 1,500 work.
Among the novelties that will be found by users who come to the judicial center we will become familiar with the stickers that divide the floor into two routes, one going and one returning. The elevators have also been divided. In each section of the building, and there are three elevators per section, two will only be up and the third will be down. The important thing is to achieve what is known as social distancing, two meters from one person to another.
To do this, one of every two chairs has been disabled in the chairs in front of each courtroom, to prevent two people from staying together. The stairs are also marked with an up and down route, as well as the court counters have a sticker on the floor so that the person who goes to each of them does not get closer than one meter.
Although the star novelty within the City of Justice are the methacrylate parabanes that will separate the users from the officials. At the moment, less than half of the courts in Valencia have them installed but, taking into account that it is not yet known when the terms will run again or when normal activity will resume, there is still time to complete their installation.
In addition to the measures so that those who come from abroad do not have any direct contact with the workers, the City of Justice also has other self-protection measures such as gloves, masks or hydroalcoholic gel. The reality is that officials have everything but the tests that could tell if they have or have had coronaviruses, because no matter how much protection there is against people who come, whether an official has the virus and is next to another, it will infect you.
At the moment, the only ones that have undergone the Covid tests are the judges, since the General Council of the Judiciary has included the serological test within the annual review to which the Valencian magistrates undergo. Officials and prosecutors, if they want to know if they have passed or have the virus, they must pay for it themselves.
Among the new protection measures that are being implemented, it is striking that at the entrance, as you have seen Valencia PlazaIn the scanner used to pass bags or briefcases, people put their belongings on the tape and nobody cleans that tape before another user uses it.
The courtrooms will also have to adapt to the new measures although, for the moment, the installation of the screens has not yet reached them. Another question that arises is, what will happen when there is a media trial and, in addition to the public, the press wants to enter.
At the moment, in the City of Justice, there is only one room for macro-trials, the Tirant Hall, where corruption trials are usually held, but the judicial life goes beyond corruption, since events monopolize a great Most of the television and radio minutes or, they flow rivers of ink and, in Valencia, the Jury room is one of the smallest rooms there is. In fact, it is quite common in media trials to see part of the press sitting on the floor. What will happen from now on?
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