The municipal spokesperson for the PP in the Arrecife City Council, Astrid Pérez, has stated that the accident that occurred during the removal of floats from the Arrecife Coso, in which a woman was seriously injured, was due to a "negligence" for which she has blamed the mayor, Eva de Anta, as coordinator and director of the Security Plan and the Carnival Emergency Plan. According to Pérez, the crane carrying the float collided with a cable from an electrical line that was attached to a coordination booth for the security commands, when "there should not have been any booth, which was placed in a roundabout, or any cable, because it is obviously not contemplated in the Security Plan."
The popular representative has also pointed out that this Plan "does not establish the minimum cabling height limits", as it did in previous years. A premise that the popular representatives consider fundamental so that the floats on their route can know "if there are obstacles". For Astrid Pérez, these facts are "very serious" because "they prove that this accident "occurred solely and exclusively due to negligence by the Arrecife City Council and the mayor".
Together with her colleagues from the municipal group, and carrying documentation from the Security Plan and images of the booth and the wiring that caused the accident, the popular leader has requested the resignation of the city's mayor. "Not a minute longer can a person put the lives of other people at risk, and even less so the mayor of Arrecife," she stressed, indicating that in other municipalities in Spain where similar events have occurred, the mayors have chosen to resign.
That any compensation be paid by the mayor
Pérez recalled that as a result of the accident, a woman remains admitted to the José Molina Orosa Hospital with serious injuries and another was slightly injured. In this regard, she has wished the injured party a speedy recovery and has announced that if the family initiates legal actions against the City Council, the PP will demand that "any compensation be paid with money from the mayor, as responsible for the Security Plan, and not with public funds".
The PP spokesperson indicated that her group had requested the Security and Emergency Plan weeks before the Carnival, without it being delivered by the government team. This is why they appealed to the Secretariat, once the necessary period had passed to demand it again. When studying the Plan, according to Pérez, they have been able to verify "that there are important falsehoods".
In this sense, she explained that "they have presented to the Civil Protection coordinator, José Cabrera, as responsible and as it appears in the Security and Emergency plans", when he "resigned as a Civil Protection volunteer in July 2016". In fact. Astrid Pérez has detailed that a modification of the Plan occurred after Cabrera himself requested it upon verifying that his name appeared. However, said modification was made "after the Carnival ended".
