(header of the demonstration today in Eagles) Between 1,500 and 2,000 people participated today in the V March in Defense of the Coast, organized by the coordinator The Murcia region is not sold. A march demands, under the slogan Save COPE Navy! Visited some of the main streets of Eagles, from the Hotel Don Juan, to the city council. Despite the hour, 12 noon, said summer day and holiday, and the heat, people throughout the region and the coastal city also came to support the convening, under the watchful gaze of police deployment unusual for this type of public gatherings. At least between 15 and 20 Civil Guards were stationed near the hotel one hour before the start of the march, which was followed by as many agents and vehicles of the Civil Guard and the local police until the end of the act.
The protesters, a human caravan very festive and colorful, carried placards with various slogans, and chanted cries as Marina COPE is not for sale!, Boat, boat, Valcárcel who does not vote, president, Murcia is not sold, or Valcárcel to prison, among others.
The protest is motivated by the intention to build over 60,000 houses in the Marina de Cope, once protected area, at least on paper, by scientific criteria that certified its scenic beauty, its botanical rarities, fauna vulnerable and unprotected today "without further criterion brick greed that grows in the heat of the stupidity of those who govern us, "said sources within the organization, which also reported that Fraile Island, and coastal environment," is the subject of speculative greed deprive us forever untouched landscape, already filled with cement and protect, against to onlookers, and appropriated to destroy it, one of the most beautiful of Eagles. "
"Gulfs and scammers"
Pedro Costa Morata, National Environment Award, closed the day of protest with a few words to the audience in front of the town hall. Morata said in his speech that "regional power appears harassed now, as evidenced by their abuse, arbitrariness, urban and environmental scoundrel. We are no longer just environmentalists, the broad social movement that has become cohesive in response to numerous attacks. " He said that "we already have justice on their heels, with solid arguments and documents and encouraging," congratulating the Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme Court. Morata also noted that "when political power is contained in its miseries and delivered to private businesses, blocking the ecological and citizen demands, it is necessary that the judiciary act."
(Pedro Costa Morata read manifest) requested that as in other parts of Spain, "the alliance of environmentalists and justice regenerate the political environment of scandal and surprises." He added that the Inspectorate of Finance knows that much of the real estate business is based on the crime and most of the capital assets are not only taxed but are not handled by front men and front men to conceal the worst offenders in politics and businesses of our region. "
The clear, transparent and tough speech by Pedro Costa Morata did not forget to certain politicians, and "we are satisfied, especially see how greed, trickery and contempt for the current laws of the City of Eagle and the Regional Government have become the site of the Zerrichera in Dien Ben Fer, in Stalingrad, in a Isati in a black hole which will to leave some, and not only the counselor Marquis, infamous, shorn, and perhaps rights to train. "
Morata called on politicians to govern "gulfs and adventurers, because not only do we snatch our eternal landscapes also have unbalanced the propriety and dignity of a people and a land whose future you want to force on a whim and will of stockists , rogues and buccaneers determined to plunder our shores. "
said that "it is too late for a new Land Act rectify this disastrous path, and have already committed irreversible damage and assault and in many cases fatal to our land and its natural, agricultural landscape."
A Miguel Navarro, mayor of Lorca, he sent the message that "not going to serve either politically or electorally your conversion and you'll brick your public life as a pirate environment, which will cause irreparable damage to your party , which is unable to control you or get you into shape. " Blamed the PSOE to "throw in the hands of the PP to give free rein to the most indecent of its members." He appealed to citizens to continue to defend the wisdom, dignity, struggle and hope and "fight against the mountain gulfs that we rise up and pissed, with its miseries and betrayals."
Pedro Costa ended his speech amid the applause of people filled the town square, warning the "regional government, mayors and councilors sold, you will look very closely and do not forgive you the damage you have done to our land ".
"Another Murcia is possible"
For his part, Domingo Jimenez, former director of the European Environment Agency, told Vega Media Press: "I think making aquiline and Murcia and conviction. The day we recover Murcia for their citizens change the future of our region. We must join this movement because it is the future, another possible Murcia. Here in the capital region there, but to make a pattern for brick where brick and let nature, a model closer to what California and away from what is Florida. " Jiménez believes that "all citizens share the search of a better quality of life, and everyone looking for a future agreement to their potential. Murcia will be sufficient within 20 years in power, because it has resources, and water, although it seems hard to believe. "
TESTIMONIALS
Paco, a spokesman for the Coordinator 'The Murcia Region is not for sale' welcomed the success of this new movement. Coordinator recalled that began with 30 groups and are now more than 60 associations within it. It is making the problem of land speculation rises to the public, since a significant part of the citizenry is well consciousness, but lack that another large part reflect on the matter and warned that "the future of this region is at stake." In his view, this model of speculative-urban development is threatening jobs in agriculture as well as protected natural areas. Believes that there are alternatives to the development model that we offer, and supports renewable energy, organic farming and the rural and cultural tourism. This demonstration is a step in the fight. But we must have the support of Justice. Assessed, finally, positively the important role being played by the independent media, such as Quicksilver, Vega Media, etc., Then said, "sometimes the official media did not bring to light all of these questions required depth."
According Pedro García, president of ANSE, "someone would want us to stay still." Ubicábamos reminded us with one example of laissez-faire in urban planning, the Hotel Don Juan, and only the passivity of the hawk population has meant that in this town has so many cases of environmental destruction. He recalled that the performance in the Marina de Cope provides a dock for 800 berths, which will destroy the habitat of the prairie posidonia site. "Eagles deserve something different," he said, because also in this population are raised about five projects marinas to accommodate between 3,000 and 4,000 boats.
To José Antonio Pujante regional coordinator IURM and councilman in the city of Lorca, "These demonstrations help to be creating awareness among citizens, with the pressure to the regional government." And although it is difficult for urban investments scheduled to turn back, "it is possible that in the 2007 elections the left and progressive forces to give a twist to the situation, Location consolidating another model. "
regard to the new Minister for the Environment, Mercader, does not believe that is sensitive to actions different from the Zerrichera Marquis, but he said, "the PP takes an electoral calculation of prudence", as "After the elections, if they maintain an absolute majority, again with the same aggressive actions."
According Eduardo Salazar, PROLITORAL attorney, which the demonstrators are claiming is "to enforce the law, pure and simple." It would be nice as well, "taking the debate environmental policy to the appropriate forums in a participatory democracy. " What the public is demanding, repeat, is "to enforce the laws that have been protecting the coastline in the last 20 years, and that public authorities are consistent with legal protections." But as the regional government is accelerating the pace of construction in Cabo Cope-Calnegre, "normal, he said, is that people get on the road to stop this barbarity. And is that "people have swollen noses," he added.
According Julia Martinez, president of Ecologists in Action, these manifestations are the expression of "a citizen outcry all Murcia and Murcia in the defense of our coastal heritage." This is done up in Eagle V said, "to highlight the case of the Marina de Cope and demand the reversal of urban-tourism project, an unprecedented assault on Europe." About Zerrichera, is convinced that this project will not proceed "because of its legal irregularities are being investigated in court. The chief prosecutor of the Supreme Court itself has already taken statements from the accused. " Highlighted the fact that Brussels is against, and all citizens of the Region of Murcia.
