The chapel of the visionary of El Escorial will be demolished this Thursday by court order

The chapel of the Prado Nuevo estate in which the visionary Amparo Cuevas affirmed that he saw the Virgin will be demolished tomorrow in execution of the sentence that three years ago annulled the granting of the license.

In a statement, the association Victims of the Alleged Apparitions of El Escorial ensures that the chapel will be demolished "six months late." Therefore, he has requested the "intervention" of the State and the Community of Madrid "of the foundations of the seer."

On the other hand, other sources familiar with the procedure have confirmed to Europa Press that the demolition is scheduled for Thursday.

Amparo Cuevas, who claimed that the virgin appeared to him on June 14, 1981, died in August 2002. It is in that year when several local groups of El Escorial such as Plural Action, Escurialense Citizen Platform, Escorial Environment, Lay Escorial, Left Unida and Equo filed an appeal against the granting of the provisional license for the chapel. The entities that presented the appeal alleged that the chapel had been built on a rustic floor of "Special Protection."

In 2018, through a Providence, the First Section of the Administrative Dispute Chamber of the Supreme Court collected the "inadmissibility to process" of the appeal filed against the ruling of the Supreme Court "confirmation on appeal" of the decision of the Court of Appeal Contentious-Administrative nº 23 of Madrid that annulled the granting of the provisional license.

In a statement, the City Council of El Escorial states that "in strict compliance" with the sentence "this City Council ordered the property", so that "immediately, proceed to disassemble this provisional installation."

"According to the above, if the property does not proceed to the dismantling of the said chapel voluntarily, the City Council will be obliged to execute in a subsidiary manner all the necessary work whose cost will be passed on to the aforementioned association, thereby complying with the judicial mandate "they underline.

For his part, in statements to Europa Press, the spokesman for one of the associations that presented the appeal, Escorial Laico, Santiago Herranz, has indicated that the "execution of the Supreme Court ruling" is going to take place "imminently." "We have 7 years and a lot of money spent on this issue," he added.

"Finally, tomorrow 30, they have to comply with the sentence or they will comply with the sentence through, it seems, a company that has hired the City Council," he said.

In turn, the spokesman for the PSOE in the City Council of El Escorial, Cristian Martín, in statements to Europa Press has indicated that the Consistory, "in compliance" with the final ruling "has taken charge of commissioning the demolition project" to that the chapel "be demolished as of tomorrow Thursday".

The mayor has indicated that the measure is an "agreement" of the local Government Board and that the amount thereof will be "charged to the guarantee" of the property of the property.

"From the Socialist Party we celebrate this victory of Justice. We are grateful to all the municipal groups, associations and groups that initiated this judicial case and to the forest agents, who were the ones who when checking how this chapel was located on a Special Protection ground they put the first complaints about it, "he concluded.

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