The president of Canary Islands GovernmentÁngel Víctor Torres, described yesterday as “unfortunate” the events that occurred at dawn yesterday in the Puertito de Adeje and appealed to “dialogue” and “never to violence to solve problems.”
The head of the regional Executive requested, through his Twitter account, that “everything that happened be clarified”, after the Salvar La Tejita platform denounced a “violent eviction at night, treachery and taking advantage of the storm” by several members of private security and construction workers of the people who have been camping for two months in protest against the construction of the Cuna del Alma hotel complex.
Detention in the Puertito de Adeje
During the incidents, the Civil Guard proceeded to arrest the president of Salvar La Tejita, Rubén P., for assaulting an agent, according to the Government Delegation, although the environmental organization affirms that the arrest occurred “for recording the aggression” .
The group’s version of events does not coincide with the account offered by the company that is executing the project. Its director, Andrés Muñoz, stated, in statements to the Cope network, that “there was neither eviction nor violence.”
Muñoz explained that “the only thing we have done is recover an excavating machine that had been kidnapped and confiscated for months and to that end we have approached a security company that would protect us and some contract workers to get our machine out of there. excavator that costs 300,000 euros, and it has been done”.
In addition, he stressed that “the shocking thing is that the news is that someone who has had something stolen recovers it and that the person who stole it complains that you have recovered the machine.”
the parliamentary group Yes We Can Canary Islands reported that he has transferred the facts to the Government delegate in the Canary Islands, Anselmo Pestana, considering that it is an “attack against the right to peaceful protest.”
The parliamentary spokesman for the purple formation, Manuel Marrero, described as “intolerable” the “brutal eviction” by private security “of an urbanization that is going to destroy a part of our territory.”
