A resident of La Asomada has reported being run over by a man, whom he had previously recorded weeks before to denounce that he is "stripping" rofe from La Geria. "I am locked in my house with the door closed, because I am terrified," says José Miguel Frahija, who has already reported both incidents to the Civil Guard.
José Miguel's story dates back to March 4 when, while taking a walk with his dog through the Tinasoria Ravine, he found "a truck and a mechanical shovel without a cab or license plate." Then, he realized that they had taken out "a significant amount" of rofe in the area and decided to record it with his mobile phone.
In addition, he warned the man who was extracting the rofe, who he claims is a "well-known" businessman from La Asomada, that "if they didn't stop extracting it, he would report it." A threat, however, that he initially decided not to carry out, although he has now fulfilled it.
And it is that, after that day, he continued to see how they "continued extracting" rofe. In addition, last Sunday, José Miguel claims that he was the victim of a hit-and-run by this businessman.
"He hit me with the headlight and the hood and lifted me into the air"
According to the complaint, the events took place on the Guardilama Road in La Asomada, where José Miguel lives. There, at around 09:30 hours and while he "was working" on a farm that he also has on this street, he claims that the businessman arrived with his car and "began to threaten him," reproaching him for having reported him to Seprona, although he had not yet done so.
After "several minutes of threats," José Miguel assures that the man left the place, although "he stayed around there circling." Later, José Miguel left the farm and joined "the road walking" to go to his house, but then he heard "a very loud acceleration" behind him and saw how the businessman was heading "with the car at full speed towards where" he was, "with the clear intention of running him over."
"Luckily I was able to dodge him, but even so he hit me with the headlight and the hood and lifted me into the air and I fell. Thank God I didn't fall with my head, but with my gluteus and back," José Miguel said in statements to La Voz. "Luckily he didn't hit me in the center of the car and I stayed there underneath, because the whole intention was to do as much as possible, because it wasn't that he braked, but accelerated," added this man.
After that, he says that the businessman "continued accelerating and left" and that he called 112, after which agents of the Civil Guard and the Local Police arrived, as well as an ambulance, which transferred him to the Molina Orosa Hospital. "They had me there all day taking plates, but nothing broken," says José Miguel, who, according to the injury report, only suffered skin wounds and a contusion on the gluteus.
"He has destroyed many holes of hundreds of years"
A day later was when José Miguel decided to report the events to the Civil Guard, both the alleged hit-and-run and the extraction of rofe in La Geria. "I think he came for me because, since I had recorded him, he thought I had already reported him," says José Miguel, who points out that when he went to the Benemérita they told him that "they already had three complaints" against the businessman from other people and that is why he believes that he could have thought they were from him and ran him over.
Regarding the extraction of rofe, in the complaint that he has now filed, José Miguel indicates that he believes that before he detected it on March 4, "they could have been working for several weeks" and that he estimates that "they may have extracted about 50 trucks." According to him, the businessman "has emptied the soil of the natural ravine, in which there was herbaceous and shrub vegetation, in addition to about 1,000 square meters of the area where there is a large fig tree" and the "extraction has generated voids of more than three meters deep in the areas where there were vines with their previously shelters."
"He has entered the heart of La Geria and has destroyed many holes of hundreds of years and has taken out dozens and dozens of picón," says José Miguel. "How can this be allowed? I have vineyards in La Geria and they don't let you move a soco or a stone, and they are destroying that," adds this man,
Threats two years ago: "I'll grab the shotgun and shoot you"
Now, he hopes that Justice will do its part, although he says that after the hit-and-run he lives in fear. "Because this man is a hunter and has shotguns," he says.
In fact, in his complaint he assures that "approximately two years ago" he already threatened him that "he was going to shoot him." Then, he claims that "he put an excavator and a truck on his farm, leaving it there damaged for about three months." "I'll grab a shotgun and shoot you," José Miguel says that this man told him, after reproaching him for these events.
After that, he indicates that "that same day in the afternoon he showed up at his house with two civil guards to whom he had said that the threats" had been made by José Miguel to him and that they came to "identify him," although "he never heard more about that complaint."
