The Municipal Police have opened an investigation against the Corta Cables collective that boycotted several points of the municipal Christmas lighting that decorate the streets of Madrid during the early hours of Sunday.

This group has published photos and videos on social networks claiming the sabotage.

They justify their action due to the

energy poverty

suffered by part of the Madrid population and criticize the excessive spending on lighting carried out by the Madrid City Council and the Community and their inaction.

In the footage uploaded on Twitter, you can see how they use pliers, with the risk of being electrocuted, to cut the cables of the lights and ornaments in Madrid in

five points of the capital:

the trees of

Atocha and Nuevos Ministerios, the lights of the Spanish flag located in Rubén Darío and the illuminated meninas in the Paseo del Prado and in the Puerta de Alcalá.

In their actions they show posters covering their faces stating: "La Cañada Real has been without electricity for more than 400 days" or "13% of families in Madrid suffer from energy poverty."

Within hours of the boycott, municipal technicians were able to splice cables and resume Christmas lighting.

From the Security area of ​​the Madrid City Council they have explained that the Municipal Police is already "tracking the account of the partner network that has published the videos and that proceedings for damages will be initiated".

This group has also added in its account that this Christmas the "Madrid City Council has spent

3.6 million euros

on Christmas lighting (12% more than last year), while the price of electricity reached the maximum yesterday historical and 13% of the Madrid homes live under energy poverty ”.

Today, Sunday, the Civic Support Platform for Light in Cañada Real has concentrated in Puerta del Sol to

demand the return of the electricity supply, contracts for the neighborhood and a monitoring table.

This initiative, constituted last October, is made up of more than 50 civil society organizations together with the neighborhood associations of Cañada Real that have joined forces to demand "the cessation of the massive violation of human rights suffered by neighbors. of sectors 5 and 6 of the Cañada Real due to the power cut since October 2, 2020. As in other calls, the spokesperson for Más Madrid has been present at the Madrid City Council and at the Madrid Assembly, Rita Maestre and Mónica Garcia.

Maestre has criticized that human rights are still not fulfilled in the city of Madrid and in the Community of Madrid.

"The same situation is repeated while both Almeida and Ayuso have not done anything. The relocations respond to a pact of the last legislature and do not solve the urgent problem and it is that we are in December and in Madrid there are 1,800 children who live without hot water and without light. We have to end this now, "he demanded.

For her part, Mónica García has condemned that the rights of the residents of La Cañada are being violated, indicating that both the Madrid City Council and the Community of Madrid and the Government of Madrid have to put "more humanity" on this matter.

"We have been supporting families for a year because it is an absolutely intolerable situation," he said.

The lawyer Javier Rubio, who represents the residents in the criminal case investigating the cessation of electricity supply, has stressed that "

there is a legal possibility of restoring electricity

."

"What the Cañada Real neighborhood is asking for is to have the same rights as others," he said.

The group denounces that after more than 14 months "with no solution in sight," another winter returns with freezing temperatures. "Last winter there was a great impact on the health of the neighbors motivated by hypothermia, burns created by the precarious stoves of firewood, poisoning by smoke and worsening of chronic diseases ", they maintain.

They highlight the incidence in patients with respiratory problems and have remarked that 1,812 children live in the area affected by the power outage in "extreme situations that may have future consequences for their physical and mental health."

"The responsible administrations are focusing their actions on the economic endowment to carry out relocations to the more than 900 families of the Cañada Real but, as the different public officials have recognized, these relocations will take years to carry out," they warned.

The platform recalled that the Ombudsman indicated in a report dated November that the solution was to enter into electricity supply contracts with neighbors.

From this social initiative they have wanted to point out that the power cut "does not affect only the residents of Cañada Real but also the quality of democracy, allowing a massive violation of human rights that affects more than 4,000 people, including 1,812 children. , girls and adolescents ".

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