Interior spent €74,000 on security for Obama's Sevilla visit that never happened
Thursday, February 9, 2017 @ 10:50 PM
INTERIOR ministry bosses spent nearly €74,000 on security measures ahead of a visit to Sevilla by the then US president Barack Obama – which was cancelled.
The PP government revealed these figures in response to a request from the MP for United Left (IU), Miguel Ángel Bustamante.
Obama was due to visit the Andalucía city last of all on a three-day trip to Spain in summer which included Madrid and the US air base in Rota (Cádiz province), but his return home had to be brought forward due to the shoot-out in Dallas, Texas, which had cost the lives of five police officers.
The president's Spanish visit was cut to just 24 hours, barely giving him time to meet with his counterpart in the Mediterranean country and the head of State, King Felipe VI.
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