«I exchange a Colombian for a Paraguayan». Children play in the playground of Puente de Vallecas schools with prostitution advertising flyers that daily flood the windshields of cars. Propaganda brochures with naked girls and messages as «foul» as «French without», «Young girls apartment in your neighborhood» or «Two girls for 50 euros».
«Advertising is normalizing something that is not normal, which is prostitution. They are normalizing this as a healthy sex life when it is not. In addition, we talk about the fact that in many cases they are exploited women ”, they point out in the association of Casco Viejo de Puente de Vallecas, which has been fighting against the opening of numerous brothels in the streets of the neighborhood for a year.
Only in the old town they have counted 14, in just a kilometer and a half, from Avenida de la Albufera to San Diego street. There are only four on Sierra de Monchique Street , although it is estimated that there may be up to a hundred in the district, where about 250,000 people live.
"An older couple living in one of the portals of Monchique is frightened, they don't even want to talk," they say from the group, whose components live under the scrutiny of the pimps, who closely monitor their protest actions.
"There are no girls"
"Look, in that bar there on the green awning they have already noticed our presence," says Clara Carmen García, president of the association, during a tour with this newspaper through the most affected areas of the hull. In one of the portals, near the Municipal Market, someone has written on the telephone up to three times "There are no girls", since customers are wrong to press on the wrong floor, causing discomfort to the neighbors. In another portal, on Monte Igueldo Street, potential clients are informed on a sheet attached to the entrance window: «The girls of the first have gone to Portazgo», with a telephone number.
«On the same phone is served by 12 or 14 girls. We believe that they are moved from neighborhoods every two or three months; they program them as if they were won ”, they say in the collective, where they estimate that from one year to this part they have“ multiplied ”
exponentially the problem, coinciding precisely with a broad operation of the National Police, which managed to dismantle dozens of narco-drugs in the district. "The police did a great job, but now we have another problem." According to neighbors, the number of flyers left on the windshields increases every week. "It is that you remove 100 and now you go through the same places and there are another 200," protests the neighbors, who indicate that when the agents pilot the distributors they are requisitioned by the flyers and "little else."
«In some brochures they say they do it without a condom and in others that with a white party only 20 euros», they add from the collective, where they fear that in many cases women are being exploited, since women are not seen during the day down the street «They take food home. She is the poor among the poor. The last place that was dismantled in Entrevías was in a garage with a window, ”they say.
From the association they believe that in at least three of the premises one could be dealing with narcotics, specifically with cocaine, as announced in one of the leaflets, but from the Police they have been informed that there is no cheating.
Security, insufficient for neighbors
According to the sources consulted, women are educated and know perfectly well what they have to say "not to raise suspicion."
The neighborhood associations recently held a meeting with the district councilor Borja Fanjul, of the PP, but say they are not worried about the issue. «He believes that there are other things that are a priority. For us the councilor is Doctor no ; He tells us no to everything, ”they point out. The security is also insufficient for the neighbors, they affirm in the association of the Old Town of Puente de Vallecas.
Sources of the District Board say that both brothels and brothels are a matter for the National Police, but they clarify that the presence of the Municipal Police has increased. In fact, there are 200 agents in this district, but from the City Council they expect to increase that figure soon thanks to the Public Employment Offer of 300 new police officers recently approved.
In Puente de Vallecas, in addition, according to municipal sources, progress has been made in the installation of video surveillance, something that was left unattended by the previous government team and the current one works to start it at the latest in the autumn.
The district councilor, Borja Fanjul, met last week with neighbors, according to the same sources, to explain the competence issue and the corporation's effort to increase the number of troops in the streets.
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