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Citizen of Cartagena (MC), Movement through its Secretary General, José López, has informed the Directorate General of Cultural Assets of the Region of Murcia through a letter to its director, Maria Comas, intolerable degree of neglect and looting continued suffering the Moorish Castle, located in the Santa Lucia and belonging to the eighteenth century, so being based on successive breaches of the rules established in both Article 46 of the Spanish Constitution and in the Law 4/2007 of 16 March relating to heritage protection, has been asked to take urgent measures to ensure their protection and that disciplinary proceedings are open to the city of Cartagena and he required immediate compliance with the duties that Spanish law requires you as the owner.

The Moorish Castle was declared BIC with the Monument category on 7 August 1997 This property is owned by the City of Cartagena since 1929, a fact which serves to influence who has never invested money in maintenance despite that the legislation required the Administration to ensure their protection.

For José López, MC councilor, "the seventeen years since the declaration of the Moorish Castle as BIC sufficiently show the degree of neglect suffered to date, so if the Directorate General of Cultural Assets not immediately applied the law and requires the council to intervene, we arrive at the Ministry of Culture with the complaint. Nevertheless, there is sufficient evidence of administrative inaction with respect to breach of its obligations. "

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According Lopez himself, "the past weekend I had the embarrassment of seeing a group of cruise passengers visiting this BIC taking home a terrible impression about the poor state of preservation, irrefutable proof of administrative apathy of making the government team gala Mrs. Barreiro, when the Mayor of Cartagena curiously who in his Saluda hanging on the website of the City would like to cite the castles and fortresses of the city, where they remain in utter neglect for decades , such as the Moorish Castle, occupied by homeless and used as landfill. "

Source: Movimiento Ciudadano