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These days Cartagena is back in the news for the health risk posed by the multiple sources of pollution in the municipality.

The death of several specimens of birds in the former Zincsa land has drawn attention, again, to the very serious situation in the absence of a real political commitment for the decontamination of the old industrial belt of Cartagena.

Following public complaints made by the edaphologist José Matías Peña, it has been known that the Prosecutor's Office investigates the death of protected birds, in addition to confirming that Seprona is conducting inspections of waste rafts.

Faced with this situation, the deputy spokesman of the municipal group MC Cartagena, Jesús Giménez, has affirmed that "the fencing of the Zincsa land can no longer be extended. Barreiro ran for Alonso to commission and then never heard of the factory workers nor of the health of the neighbors of Torreciega ".

In any case, he added, "as the edaphologist José Matías Peña claims, it is urgent and priority to proceed to the fencing of the area, signal these dangers and take precautionary measures while decontamination is underway."

In this context, he said that "it is a good time to remind those who speak of Cartagena 'World Heritage' that the Cartagena are human beings, human beings whose children have lead in the blood, are exposed to asbestos in their schools , they have to bathe in a Mar Menor that they have turned into a cemetery, and they live in a polluted urban belt that affects everyone's health, as the leadership in the incidence of cancer in the population shows, or the inclusion in the six areas with radioactivity in Spain ".

Therefore, the Cartagena spokesman has denounced that "this is the inheritance and reality that leaves us more than two decades of PP in the regional government, and to strengthen Arroyo, Padin and Castejón allied against Cartagena. A game against our health that they hide with pictures, hollow words and references to the unit, while here the 'polluter pays' does not apply. "

Due to this problem, he concluded by stating that "it is necessary to claim against a cornered policy that compromises our life and our future, as is the case with ZINCSA, where anyone can soak in heavy metals or breathe the magnificent effluviums of the polluted PP policy. Without forget that in this specific case many of the administrations leave their work squeaky, that we do not know if it is coincidence and the result of their proverbial indifference to people's problems, or the causality of their good understanding with the new ownership of the land " .

Source: Grupo municipal MC Cartagena