The organizers of the Siete Estrellas mountain bike circuit of the Community of Madrid have suspended the MTB test known as

La Ruta de las Dehesas

scheduled for this Sunday, December 13, as they cannot guarantee the safety of the 500 registered runners after the Mayor of Navas del Rey, the independent Jaime Peral, summoned 60 armed hunters on the route that passed through this eastern municipality of the region located 52 kilometers from the capital.

The promoters argue in a statement that the event was canceled due to "

the risk to the development of the test and the safety of the participants themselves that the call for armed hunters by the Navas del Rey City Council supposes

in an area where the route passes and of what we have learned this Saturday afternoon-night ".

Over the last few days the Navas del Rey City Council tried to legally and unsuccessfully prevent the development of the test on the public roads that pass through the municipal pasture despite the fact that the organizers had all the permits for its celebration.

"I had been trying to prevent the test for a long time, but we had all the favorable reports from all the administrations involved and from the Community of Madrid", explains Javier Donaire, director of the race.

"To prohibit it, he alleged three things: that he was passing through private land, that there was a hunting activity that day and that

the City Council had been denied a bullfight by Covid protocol and that for the same reasons he was not going to allow the race with the same risks of contagion,

"continues Donaire.

"Actually the race passes through a municipal pasture and the Community told us that it was not a private farm and that it was possible to go through there. In addition, the Community told us that that day there was no hunting activity scheduled and therefore we were said from the administration that the reasoning of the councilor was dismissed and the celebration was authorized ", adds the director.

As the appeal failed, the mayor of Navas del Rey himself called the organizer in a threatening tone this week and, according to Donaire, he told them verbatim.

"

By my balls you are not going to go through my town and for that I have summoned the hunters' society

to close all the farms where the test passes. There will be 60 armed hunters willing to do whatever it takes like one of the runners happen to them. "

In addition, the regidor placed fences at the entrance and exit of the Navas del Rey meadow.

On Saturday night, less than 2 pm before the race and with threats of a boycott by the councilor, the promoters canceled the race and begged the participating cyclists to refrain from "showing up at the start or taking the tour through Security issues".

"Although we have the necessary authorization from the Area of ​​Public Shows and Recreational Activities of the Community of Madrid to carry out the test

, the action of the Navas del Rey City Council forces us to make this drastic decision,

" the organization said it's a statement.

Despite the suspension of the test this Sunday morning, the organizers have found at least eight hunters in Navas del Rey when they have gone to remove the signals and beacons from the circuit, according to Donaire, director of the test.

"

They were not willing to shoot, but it is clear that they were positioned to intimidate people,

" says the director of the test who has announced that they are going to take legal action against the councilor and that they are perplexed by the threats received.

Donaire assures that it has been impossible to make an alternative route and avoid Navas del Rey.

"We have been with this for weeks and it was impossible to do the test without going through its term.

We have placed ourselves at the disposal of the mayor and at his feet so that he could tell us the most appropriate way to go

and he has always refused to negotiate and reach an agreement knowing that the administration had proved us right. Their answer has always been negative, "says Donaire.

"The problem is that this individual is the mayor of a town. The serious thing is that the councilor calls people to take out shotguns and does not comply with what the administration says," he emphasizes, very annoyed with his caciquil attitude.

This newspaper has tried without success to speak with

Jaime Peral, mayor of Navas del Rey, who in 2017 withdrew from the PP

due to disagreements with the party leadership.

In 2019 he won the elections to the municipality at the head of a coalition of councilors from the Popular Party.

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