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The state of abandonment encourages young people to enter the monument with the consequent risk to their health
This morning, the head of Heritage of MC Cartagena and elected councilor, María Dolores Ruiz, has been obliged to denounce "once again, the incompetence of the General Directorate of Cultural Property of the CARM to plug, since 2015, the repeated efforts of our formation to protect Villa Calamari ".
This is how Ruiz began his intervention, reacting to the latest incidents in the building, alerted by the presidency of the San Felix Neighborhood Association, who reported in recent days that a group of minors were accessing Villa Calamari, some through the sixty meters of perimeter wall that still remain collapsed in the ground and, others, through the butrón that the unscrupulous did to accede to this battered Good of Cultural Interest (BIC).
María Dolores Ruiz recalled that "our resources have been neglected, we went to the Ombudsman to finally denounce the plundering of the BIC before the Ministry of Culture, and we did this when we found out that the real estate company 'Vano' has in the General Directorate of Cultural Assets to their best ally in their planned abandonment to Villa Calamari They, the CARM, are the main enemies of the heritage in Cartagena, in breach of the obligations acquired after the transfer of powers over the heritage with the Statute of Autonomy ".
"Hundreds of complaints, as many visits from the Local Police and the Dantesque vision of one of the jewels of Cartagena's modernism have not been sufficient endorsement to mobilize any action on the part of the CARM, the supposedly competent organism, while the neighbors see a collapse BIC and, with it, the trust in the Rule of Law protected by the current legislation, "he argued.
The hypocrisy of the regional government and the popular Noelia Arroyo
In this context, the next councilor of the City of Cartagena has said that "now we remember with rage contained the frustrated and escaparatista attempt of Noelia Arroyo, then Minister of Culture of the CARM, to remove Villa Calamari from the Red List of Hispania Nostra. In short, we are spectators of the performance of the regional government, ignoring the law and the impotence of seeing that our monumental heritage is plunged into ruin with total impunity. "
Immediately afterwards, the person in charge of Heritage of MC distributed responsibilities between "the owner and the CARM, to avoid the latter exercise its sanctioning power to return to Villa Calamari its former splendor." The injured is a whole municipality, deprived of the revaluation of a Modernist palace that would surely be one of the jewels of the regional crown to be found elsewhere.The inaction is also fattened with two windmills that are on that farm and that lack protection environment ".
"Unfortunately, for San Felix it rains in the wet, we remember the demolition of a mill that happened years ago to build a house, despite the protection granted by its inauguration as an Asset of Cultural Interest".
Avoid a misfortune
To conclude, Ruiz pointed out that "years ago, the regional press echoed the death of a person inside the building, which did not help to alleviate their status or their protection." Continuing our responsible action, we will send the photographs of the young people who enter the monument to avoid that one morning any breakfast with the news that some minor has lost his life 'visiting' the monument ".
"Privilege, the visit, forbidden to citizens by an arbitrary decision of the CARM Perhaps then the denounce for expolio ends up becoming one for homicide for imprudence, and that these photographs not only alert of the abandonment of our patrimony but that They warn about the safety of our children, and with that, they do not play. "
Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena
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