Neighborhood protest against the Nacho Cano theater in the Madrid district of Hortaleza: "It is a cacicada and an absolute barbarity"

Today it is a plot of almost 20,000 square meters full of weeds in the Madrid district of Hortaleza.

And in a few months, if there are no last-minute changes in the script, it will house a temporary theater built at the request of the musician

and that will finally be a tent instead of having an Aztec pyramid of 30 meters high, as the project included. initial.

Dozens of residents of the area have demonstrated this Sunday in the same area to ask the City Council of the capital to reconsider its assignment for four years to

. In exchange for the exploitation of this cultural space, which will include a 400-space car park, the company of which the former member of Mecano is the sole administrator must pay an annual fee of 454,000 euros.

"What seems fatal to us is the cacicada that they let him build that just because Isabel Díaz Ayuso has spent the holidays at that man's house; it is an absolute barbarity," say Fernando and Pilar, who live in one of the apartment blocks attached to the plot of the Conde Orgaz-Piovera neighborhood, a high

in Hortaleza. They are reminded that the award does not depend on the president of the Community of Madrid, but on the Consistory of José Luis Martínez-Almeida, to which they respond: "Well, we all know who is in charge here."

The concentration against the

-which is its technical name- has been convened by a score of neighborhood and cultural associations of the district and on behalf of all of them Mari Carmen Lostal is the one who has made the pertinent communication to the Government Delegation. "We ask that it be paralyzed because it does not have a mobility or noise study and, in addition, it will be done in a public plot where we have been asking for

long time

, even before José Luis Moreno" , Explain.

By "José Luis Moreno" he refers to the plan that the ventriloquist and businessman - currently accused of a crime of fraud and money laundering - began to sketch in 2002 on that same site: to build the

, a monumental building with three floors, capacity for 6,000 spectators and an investment estimated at 164 million euros in which not a single brick was placed. The City Council did not manage to recover the plot until 2017.

According to what the promoters of the protest denounce in a few sheets given to the attendees, the theater for which Nacho Cano has obtained permission this year "was in principle an Aztec pyramid of nine floors, now it seems that they are changing it for a

, plus a landscaping with pre-Hispanic decoration of 2,500 square meters, a restaurant area and a large parking lot for 400 spaces of 10,000 square meters, after cutting down the existing trees ".

More Madrid joins the criticism

"The neighbors of Hortaleza have concentrated transversely, from the Conde Orgaz Park to San Lorenzo and Villa Rosa, to say

to a project that is going to be very annoying, as we are seeing that it is already happening in the Delicias Space , in Arganzuela ", has warned the councilor of Más Madrid

. "Apart from the obvious mamandurria of handing over this land to a person who belongs to the electoral structure of the PP, there is very little consideration for the life and neighborhood peace of Hortaleza," he added.

From the main opposition group in the City Council they urge the local government to "rethink" the transfer and "not to continue advancing in something that cannot be called diversification of culture outside the M-30 because after all it's going to be a musical [

] at

".

This request has already been formally raised in the last Cibeles Plenary, but it was rejected with the votes of the PP, Citizens and Vox.

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