The City Council does not authorize the Reggaeton Beach Festival in Villaverde scheduled for this weekend and the organization maintains the call

The Madrid City Council has suspended the celebration of the Reggaeton Beach Festival (RBF) scheduled for this coming weekend of July 22 and 23 in the controversial Iberdrola Music space in Villaverde (the area where MadCool was held) due to the fact that guarantee the security or evacuation conditions suitable for an event of these characteristics. The attendance of 50,000 people was announced, many of them coming from outside Madrid and Spain. In that same space, the MadCool festival and the Harry Styles concert have been held, which left a barrage of criticism against the organization of both events in which people suffered agonizing situations to be able to leave. Artists such as Ozuna, Anuel AA, Arcángel, Jhayco, Eladio Carrion, Bryant Myers, Mora, Lunay, Sech and Young Miko were scheduled to perform this Saturday and they would do so in Barcelona on Sunday.

Despite this municipal announcement, the organizer of the Reggaeton Beach Festival maintains the call scheduled for this weekend. In a statement, the promoter of the festival maintains that “all the measures required by the authorities in relation to the assembly of said event” have been adopted and all the corrections requested in the Mobility plan have been presented in due time and form, to the as well as “all the considerations requested in the security and mobility meetings held with the city council and security forces”, without obtaining any unfavorable report.

The Consistory has explained that a security meeting was held this week with the Government Delegation where all the parties involved have conveyed their concern about holding this festival in a complex location for mobility when large events take place.

This decision is taken after the organizer has presented an incomplete mobility plan today. In addition, the Madrid City Council Fire Brigade, which previously supervised the event, has issued an unfavorable report on the event.. Nor do they have authorization to exceed the maximum decibels established in the Noise ordinance.

The festival website, for the moment, has not reported anything about the suspension of the event.

During the celebration of MadCool and at the Harry Styles concert last Friday at this Villaverde venue, there were serious mobility problems in the area with kilometric queues of vehicles, traffic jams to get out and people crossing the M-45. The Madrid City Council blamed the problems on the fact that the Getafe City Council closed part of the access to the M-45.

Sources from the Getafe City Council, involved in this matter both due to the proximity of the municipality to the site and for reasons of mobility, while access to the space from the south is via the M-45 motorway, an access road and departure to Getafe, they had already announced today that the festival was not going to be held in Villaverde.

The mayoress of Getafe, Sara Hernández, has had a telephone conversation with the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, in which she has transmitted the “security problems” of the last weekends at the Iberdrola Music. The Getafense Consistory argues that the Municipal Police presented a report on the security problems in the previous events where it also detailed that the noise levels established by the regulations were exceeded.

“The next objective is to move the 'Iberdrola Music' venue, located 300 meters from the homes, to another point in the city where it does not affect residents of Getafe or the capital, starting with the 'Coca Cola Music Experience' festival ' September”, concludes the Consistory.

The mayoress of Getafe was scheduled to meet today with representatives of the Madrid City Council to convey the security problems of recent weekends and ask for the suspension, sources from the Getafense consistory report. He also conveyed his concerns to the Government delegate, Francisco Martín.

The Regional Federation of Neighborhood Associations had been denouncing for more than four months that the Villaverde venue was not conditioned for concerts and warned of the problems that could arise from the proximity to the homes, the M-45 and the lack of parking spaces. .