The CC spokesman in the Tías City Council, Amado Vizcaíno, has demanded that the Socialist Party in Lanzarote, whose Secretary of Organization, José Juan Cruz, is also the mayor of the southern municipality, "take responsibility and put a stop to the unease that is generating among the residents of Puerto del Carmen, the behavior of some of the people who have arrived on the island irregularly and who are staying in a tourist complex".
“These people are not coming on vacation, they are fleeing their countries of origin, fleeing wars and misery, and they should be welcomed in a space that meets the appropriate conditions, not put in any place to patch up the problem, because we don't know how much longer this situation will last,” says Vizcaíno.
“We are a supportive people and we have demonstrated it on many occasions, but the health situation we are experiencing forces us to take extreme precautions. At this time, there is an accommodation complex in Puerto del Carmen that welcomes those who must go through a quarantine, but we are finding that among the people who are arriving by boat, there are Covid positives who hide, who do not observe the quarantine and who come and go as they please because there is no control whatsoever”, says Vizcaíno.
Likewise, the councilor has explained that, as the residents of the nearby buildings, with whom he recently met, have told him, “if they must stay there because there is no other space for the moment, at least police surveillance should be increased." And he argues that "some of the people who stay in the aforementioned complex, apart from the noise and inconvenience to the neighbors, put the population at risk since they often skip quarantine and come and go as they please.”
Vizcaíno also points out that the residents have written to both the Cabildo and the Tías City Council without having received any response from their leaders to date.
“It is inconceivable that this situation is allowed, but if we take into account that the president of the Cabildo and the mayor of Tías are in turn the general secretary and the secretary of organization of the PSOE on the island, everything is said. The PSOE is in charge in Madrid and here, those who have to defend us, remain silent and grant”, he questions.
In addition, the CC councilor, as his party colleagues in Arrecife and the Cabildo of Lanzarote have already done, recalls that the island has an "underutilized" space that he considers "meets the conditions for the reception of these people to be carried out in dignified conditions: the Marqués de Herrera barracks."
