The Telesforo Bravo-Juan Coello Foundation criticized singer Justin Quiles on Monday for holding an unauthorized concert yesterday on La Tejita beach, south of Tenerife, which is a protected area, and which caused a 17-kilometer collapse in the roads.
Under the title Tenerife. The environmental laughing stockthe aforementioned Foundation, which is dedicated to scientific and environmental dissemination, has described this concert on its social networks as “a new chapter in a shameful soap opera that should begin to produce resignations if we lived in a country with a quality democracy”.
“We are going to tell a story that produces embarrassment and indignation that does not disappear with the hours,” says the Foundation, which reports that singer Justin Quiles “feels frustrated because the San Miguel City Council, acting correctly, suspends his concert and that of other artists”.
In this way, he alludes to the fact that Quiles was part of the cartel of artists of the reggaeton beach festivalwhich was scheduled to be held on July 30 at Amarilla Golf and which was suspended by the City Council of San Miguel de Abona for security reasons.
But the American singer of Puerto Rican origin “doesn’t want to leave his followers without a concert” and summons them to Tejita beach, a Special Nature Reserve and a protected area of the Natura 2000 Networkadds the Foundation.
“Citizen Quiles seems to be unaware that you have to request authorization to organize a concert on a beach and in a protected area and the one he involves is of gigantic proportions”, since in a few hours more than 7,000 people gather “who collapse roads and trample on plants , habitat of many animals and keys in the maintenance of the dune system”.
The roads of Las Chafiras-Los Abrigos, Los Abrigos-Atogo, Los Abrigos-El Médano, Hermano Pedro, El Médano-San Isidro collapse and it is not possible to circulate even due to an emergency. In total there are 17 kilometers of roads with people stopped in their vehicles, not counting the collapse that also occurs in the TF-1, he adds.
If an accident had occurred, the injured could not have been evacuated, continues the Foundation, which points out that the Local Police of Granadilla draw up the minutes, but it does not prevent the concert from being held.
For the Environmentalist Foundation, Justin Quiles is responsible for various administrative infractions and perhaps for some crime but, he adds, “as always happens with those who come from outside, he has a letter of marque to do whatever he wants and will not answer for what he did”, because the island’s authorities “will do everything possible to make it come off scot-free”.
As for the political leaders of the Subdelegation of the Government of Spain, the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo de Tenerife and the City Council of Granadilla, no one will give explanations and no one will resign, he assures.
For the Telesforo Bravo-Juan Coello Foundation, “we are experiencing a very dangerous moment for the survival of the democratic system: the bankruptcy of the rule of law by those who should defend it.”
