This morning, the Municipal Group MC Cartagena has reported the events that occurred during the afternoon of last Monday when the eight councilors of this training, together with the trusted staff, suffered the repressive and arbitrary action of the mayor who ordered eight agents of the Local Police avoid the realization of the Christmas greeting video that MC was trying to record next to the tree and the nativity scene installed in the hall of the City Hall.
On Tuesday, before this fact, of clear intimidating and authoritative dyes, the deputy MC spokesman, Jesús Giménez, requested a certified copy of the report or part of the action issued by the head of the Local Police service in relation to the incident .
An absolutely unjustifiable attitude that is not based on any regulations or regulations, and that comes to add to other acts of censorship such as erasing the images of the incident invented during the Plenary session of October 31.
It should be remembered that the Police replied in writing to this group, clarifying that the recording was requested in due time but that the automatic deletion had been carried out because the document was "late."
In any case, they clarify that they saw nothing.
Authorization to reach "to the end"
In this context, the spokesman of MC Cartagena, José López, has begun denouncing "a new abuse of authority", while noting that the sending of eight agents of the Local Police to "intimidate us" was accompanied by "instructions (as we were warned ) that they will come against us until the end. "
Then, the leader of MC wanted to thank the agents "their good treatment and correction", in addition to "apologize on behalf of the Cartagena of good to those who are ashamed that the police are used to prevent Christmas is congratulated" .
"So are the 'squatters' who live in this building; cowards and authoritative," he said.
Subsequently, the Cartagena councilor said that "surely this performance is not surprising, because Arroyo's calls to change the news and pressure the media are already famous, but using public force to coerce councilors is a novel way of 'demonstrating' his mood of consensus. "
"That's how they treat us, not me or the councilors, the Cartagena people. They take us for fools and for vassals," Lopez concluded.
"Censorship, veto and smile"
For his part, the deputy spokesman, Jesús Giménez, has reiterated that the head of the Local Police received the order of "superiority", while denouncing "those who use the Police when there are missing troops in neighborhoods and districts and we are talking every day about security problems in the municipality, in that context, eight local policemen came to intimidate the councilors, not because of their will or their attitude, but with that intention on the part of the mayor. "
The mayor has reported that, last Monday while censorship of the local government took place, the head of the Mayor's Office was not "at his job", nor did he answer the phone to "offer the explanations we requested."
Giménez has advanced that "we reserve to undertake all the actions that may correspond to us in this regard".
The councilor of MC has wanted to get the Cartagena people "who know who is governing us; we have in front of the Government of Cartagena people who do not negotiate, who suspend full inventing stories and erasing cameras, who send police so that councilors do not record a Merry Christmas message, people who call the directors of the media to change the news ... That is the constant: censorship, veto and smile. "
Likewise, with respect to the arbitrary suspension of the Plenary session of October 31, the Government being protected in an alleged incident, it has reaffirmed what José López announced that, despite arriving in a timely manner and in writing the municipal group MC to have access to the Chambers of the City Hall, these images were deleted, also revealing, by way of example, that, a month ago, from the City Hall, the celebration at the City Hall of a talk organized by this Municipal Group on transparency, which had been prohibited at the last minute Received prior authorization.
To all this the Government veto is added to the presence of MC in acts of the importance of Disability Week.
In short, "curtail freedom of expression, freedom of political action and even the ambulatory freedom of workers, that's what the current government is coming to, that's what we have in Cartagena," the deputy spokesman for the training concluded cartagenerista.
Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena