The residents of the Martinez Montanes neighborhood in Seville, popularly known as Las Vegas, have denounced that most of the houses in the area are without power after a police operation carried out this week. In this intervention, several marijuana plantations were dismantled and, according to the neighbors, the illegal installations that the growers had practiced to defraud the electric flow were cut. This would have caused a blackout in the entire neighborhood.
This is what the secretary and spokesman for the Martinez Montanes neighborhood association, Rafael Pertegal Santiago, denounces, stating that more than 40 families have been left without electricity as a result of the aforementioned operation. The neighborhood representative thanks the Police for fighting illegal crops and highlights “the excellent actions” that have recently been carried out in this area of ​​the Poligono Sur.
“We neighbors agree with the interventions that are made to prosecute crime,” says Pertegal, who has sent a letter reporting what happened to the sub-delegate of the Government in Seville, Carlos Toscano. In the letter, the representative of the neighbors reports that the operation in question took place on November 9, between ten in the morning and twelve at noon, on El Nombre de la Rosa street. In this operation, “apart from intervening, they left more than 40 families without electricity in an unjustified way, cutting and taking away the electricity cables of the other neighbors, without asking or without thinking what consequences this could have.”
Pertegal recalls that the majority of these families “use electric water heaters”, that in them “there are minors who need a toilet to go to school or institute” or “elderly people who have vision loss or other illnesses and for whom the lack of light poses twice the obstacle” to move. “What is going to happen to these families now that we are cold
What about the children and the elderly
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The neighborhood leader asks the sub-delegate of the Government to return to normality as soon as possible, “even if it is with a provisional light” and work between all the administrations to solve the problems of the neighborhood. Pertegal also points to the excess of force used by a police officer with a ten-year-old boy during the operation and laments that in recent years this institution has distanced itself greatly from its neighbors.
