Red -

handed

, on a sidewalk not baptized or by Google Maps parallel to the M-50 motorway, the Alcorcón Local Police

hunted

an offender on Wednesday morning who deposited, under the summer sun,

a significant amount of debris .

He parked his van next to some crumbling concrete walls covered in graffiti, thinking it was

the right place to dump the illegal dumping

on the outskirts of town.

The agents of the Environment and Animal Protection Unit, who are in charge of monitoring this type of "uncivil behavior", were in charge of taking the data, and now they will face

a sanction of "approximately 6,000 euros"

, as stated

pronounced the municipal body itself on Twitter.

From Ecologists in Action, they point to this newspaper, they are pleased that "the Police do their job."

"

We are satisfied that preventive surveillance gives results

. What we have been denouncing for years is the impunity with which offenders dump all kinds of waste

on roads, highways and rivers in the Community of Madrid

," explains Raúl Navarrete, spokesman for this group. in the Southwest of Madrid.

Without going any further, a couple of weeks ago, a large pile of debris blocked the path of a crew of firefighters who were rushing to try to extinguish a fire proclaimed in Leganés.

It was impossible for them to cross the pile of garbage

accumulated not only on the sides of the road, but also in the middle of it.

The firefighters had to access the fire by another route from Villaverde,

losing "precious time"

, as CPPMLeganés pointed out, adding: "This is inadmissible for safety, environmentalism and health. A misfortune is going to happen".

From Ecologists in Action they point to Leganés as the largest focus of illegal landfills in the region.

Up to 360 came to count on a map with the points in Madrid where waste is illegally deposited:

from asbestos to refrigerators, passing through sanitary material or rubble

.

Some of the volunteers of this green group have even found burned cars after being used by moonlighters in some misdeed.

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