María José Alemán Valls, relative of Ginés Ramírez Alemán, the Lanzarote native who died seven years ago in the Piedra Cochinos gallery in Los Silos (Tenerife), has warned that "13-year-old students have repeatedly entered the Famara water gallery, located by the La Paja ravine." According to her, they told a teacher, to whom they said that "they went in a few hundred meters until they began to notice some dizziness."
After the complaint of this woman, the City Council of Teguise has taken "action on the matter." At around 10:30 a.m., the Local Police of Atestados, an environmental officer and a technician were already in the area to carry out an assessment of the galleries, which will be sent to the Heritage Department of the Cabildo.
"These galleries belong to Heritage," recalled the Councilor for Emergencies, Eugenio Robayna, who despite this has assured that the City Council will "monitor this issue day by day." "The City Council will not fall asleep and will do everything possible to ensure that these galleries are closed as quickly as possible," said the councilor.
Robayna explained that in this area, at the end of Famara beach and halfway up the Risco, there are between four and six galleries, some of which reach 500 meters deep. All of them, according to the councilor, have a sign that says "no entry," but in some places "hikers have been removing them to enter the galleries."
The City Council has also asked the technicians to verify if it is possible to place bars with padlocks in the galleries, although for this the consent of Heritage must be obtained.
"It is outrageous that these things continue to happen"
María José Alemán Valls sent a statement to the media this Monday in which she described as "outrageous" that "these things continue to happen," after the death of six young people, including a Lanzarote native, in the Piedra Cochinos gallery in Los Silos (Tenerife) in 2007.
"After what happened, we were assured that the galleries were already located and properly signposted and closed so that it would not happen again. Well, apparently it is not true and there is danger for people again, because nothing has been done," denounced this woman.