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The spokeswoman, Marina Albiol, asks the president of the Committee on Petitions, Cecilia Wikström, to introduce in the agenda of the day "as soon as possible" the request of the Platform Pro-Soterramiento, which has been waiting for a solution since November 2016

Neighbors and neighbors have been running for 14 consecutive days demanding that the construction of a wall that will leave practically incomunicados of the center to about 200,000 inhabitants of the south of the city and demanding that the initial project is completed so that the train passes underground

The United Left spokeswoman in the European Parliament, Marina Albiol, has asked the Petitions Committee (PETI) to "urgently address" the petition presented by the Pro-Underground Platform of the Ave to Murcia and was admitted in November of 2015, but still to be resolved.

The MEP has asked Cecilia Wikström, chairwoman of the committee, to include as early as possible in the agenda of the day, "in the face of great public opposition to the city being divided into two by a wall" and " doubts that exist about the environmental impact ".

"We have asked Wikström to speed up the petition and to include it as soon as possible in PETI's agenda so that we can discuss the situation with the European Commission and try to put a remedy in Europe," said Albiol, who sees "a nonsense divide the city of Murcia in two with a wall against the will of a majority of the population, which advocates burial. "

The MEP addressed to the PETI secretariat requesting the further discussion of this petition is "waiting for the European Commission to inform us of its position since the end of last year" and that after being admitted to processing, the institution the community contacted the Ministry of Development to request information on the situation of the works of the AVE.

In the complaint of the Platform explained that the initial project provided for the burial of the roads to Murcia, but now both Fomento and the Regional Government and the City of Murcia have changed plans and are dividing the city in two with a a wall that will be raised three years until the works are finished, although the population fears that this provisional wall becomes definitive as it has happened in other occasions.

"It has been many months, the wall has begun to rise and the petition is still paralyzed. It is something that besides being financed with European funds is generating a tremendous social alarm because the construction of the line means that the south of the city and its 200,000 inhabitants are isolated from the center ", explains the MEP who has criticized the Commission" for having contributed to its slowness to the situation is lengthened. "

Faced with this situation, the residents of the southern region of Murcia have had 14 days in a row with daily demonstrations involving tens of thousands of people, but "unfortunately the response of the Government Delegation has been the repression and the sending of riot gear".

"We expect an immediate response from the European authorities and we can put an end, which we insist, is a nonsense that has raised the citizens of Murcia," Albiol concluded before criticizing that the Government of the Region of Murcia and the Delegation of the Government are "more eager to suppress the protests than to listen to a population that is crying out for burial already."

Source: IU