The Municipal Police are hindering the return of prostitution to the Marconi industrial estate in Villaverde. The agents are sanctioning the prostitutes and clients who, since last weekend, have returned to that industrial zone in the south of the capital with the entry into the region of Phase 2 of the de-escalation. The Madrid City Council clarifies that the activity that the Municipal Police carried out in the area before the state of alarm has been reactivated. "It has been found that the movement has begun to grow and customers are fined and customer acquisition," says a municipal spokesman.

The fines are imposed on women for skipping the Royal Decree of the state of alarm (463/20), since they remain standing on the street and, therefore, face a sanction that can be from 600 euros to 1,500 euros. This is causing the prostitutes to stop moving to avoid punishment by detecting the lights of the police patrol from a distance.

All in all, over the last five days the agents have sanctioned more than twenty women and clients. One of them was also sanctioned for being with a prostitute near a children's area of ​​a hotel in the polygon.

América, a 33-year-old Venezuelan prostitute, is one of the few women who does not shoot herself or who bothers to see a camera. «The Police pass but the normal thing is that they don't fine us. I have nothing else to live on. I dedicate myself to this and this is my work, ”explained the woman with a naked torso and without a protective mask. "The problem is that it is more difficult to find clients now," acknowledges the woman.

Most of the prostitutes are concentrated in what is known as the Cat, near a hotel. There they are located on different avenues depending on nationalities, according to Alberto, a worker at the many car workshops in the area.

"There are many who are on their own but there are also others who have their pimps and who are the ones who usually leave later," says Emilio, a security guard at a factory in the area.

For almost three months the neighbors have lived in peace and now recognize that the prostitutes have returned. «The prostitutes are not in Marconi, where they are concentrated in the El Gato industrial estate. We are tired of Marconi being linked to prostitution », they point out from the Neighborhood Association of the neighborhood. "A lot of activities and initiatives are done here and the bad always comes out," they added.

"If they fine us for being on the street without justifying how they won't be fined," says another neighbor who lives in a block located two kilometers from the estate.

The Madrid City Council approved at the end of last year the installation of video surveillance cameras in the Marconi industrial estate as a tool to reduce conflict and to promote the revitalization of the area.

The Vicálvaro Entrepreneurs Association and the Villaverde New Entrepreneurs Union were the driving forces behind the measure. It was also a historical demand of the neighbors, who ask that measures be adopted to stop the dumping of rubble and other problems in this corner of Madrid.

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