Candidates of the coalition United Yes We Can (Can Canary IslandsIzquierda Unida Canaria and Sí Se Puede) have denounced this Thursday before the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office alleged new irregularities in the processing of the construction project of the Cuna del Alma tourist complexin the vicinity of the small port of Adeje, and whose works are paralyzed in a precautionary manner.
In statements to journalists at the gates of the Palace of Justice, the candidate for Mayor of Adeje, Gabriel González, has indicated that there are “irregularities” from the beginning of the file that “attempt the declaration of public interest”emphasizing that the project “lacks justification” and the City Council “ignores” the unfavorable reports that came from supra-municipal organizations.
Thus, he has commented that a correct environmental report was not made, nor were the archaeological sites taken into account, only an environmental sustainability report, nor was the pertinent legislation applied.
González has also said that since 2014 there was evidence that it was a favorable area to find archaeological sites in the area and this has not been taken into account during the processing and works.
The candidate for the Presidency of the Cabildo de TenerifeManuel Marrero, has shown his fear that the precautionary suspension of the project will end after the next elections and he has expressed satisfaction with the work carried out by the activists from the small port of Adeje who “put his body before the shovels” in the face of the “archaeological destruction” and the “disappearance of species such as the sad viborina, and which made it possible to promote a precautionary suspension and the “largest fine” in the history of the Canary Islands.
According to Marrero, with this complaint “a circle is closed” after the meeting last week with representatives of the European Commission, led by the MEP Idoia Villanueva, in which it was found that “the responsibilities” of compliance with the directives European ones fall mainly on the Adeje City Council and the Cabildo.
Thus, he has urged that environmental legislation be complied with, that a project typical of the “developmentalism of the 60s” be investigated and paralyzed and that “does not correspond to the tourism of the future” that does not go through a “predatory model of the territory”.
