The double condemnation of the Cañada Real: between drugs and poverty that the left launches against Ayuso
21 detainees, three drug clans dismantled, more than 60 kilos of drugs seized, 23 structures demolished, five firearms and nine high-end vehicles seized. This is the balance of the Pastor operation, carried out yesterday in Cañada Real. The culmination of an investigation by the Civil Guard that has lasted eight months and has dealt a new blow to drug trafficking in this area of illegal settlements to the southeast of the capital, in which electricity, poverty and narcotics form the three variables of a complicated equation that has not been solved for years.
The area is a complicated corridor outside of urban regulations that extends for 15 kilometers -from the district of Villa de Vallecas to Coslada-, where substandard housing for people without resources, important points of sale and distribution of narcotics and large-scale chalets coexist. dimensions equipped with all kinds of comforts.
In addition to the news of events, the Cañada Real is the protagonist of the social pages due to the lack of electricity -preventing the installation of heating or cooling devices during the months of extreme temperatures-, which its inhabitants have been experiencing for months before of the storm Filomena. An anomaly for which neighborhood associations blame electricity companies. His position is supported by forces such as Más Madrid, Podemos or Sumar, who during the last two electoral calls raised the banner of this neighborhood struggle and used it as a political weapon against Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
«The reestablishment of the electricity supply in Cañada Real is urgent and a matter of Human Rights. We are committed to the Cívica por la Luz de la Cañada Real platform so that they once again have access to this basic right”, assured the Sumar formation in a pact signed three days before the General. A situation that even reached the Council of Europe. which ruled that Spain should “take measures” to restore electricity in the area.
Meanwhile, energy distributors claim that the lack of electricity is due to illegal power hookups to feed indoor marijuana crops, a plant that requires large amounts of energy for optimal flowering.
Indoor cultivation of marijuana, discovered by the Civil Guard.
Crops such as those that the Civil Guard found yesterday morning, during the execution of 18 simultaneous entry and search warrants in the shanty town. The highlight: two indoor crops with more than 1,000 plants, as well as 62 kilos of marijuana in buds, ready for consumption. “They had marijuana plantations and buds scattered around the interior of different homes,” sources from the Benemérita tell EL MUNDO.
However, the detainees, who belong to three family clans, had heroin trafficking as their main business.. A criminal triad at the top of which was a married couple and their two older children, who were in charge of supplying other traffickers. Those arrested are charged with the crimes of drug trafficking, belonging to a criminal group, illegal possession of weapons, production and cultivation of marijuana and fraud of electricity. In addition, in the rooms dedicated to the storage and production of narcotics in the warehouses and substandard housing, there were “bunkerized” spaces set up for the sale and consumption of heroin on site.
“The cuts and the follow-ups during the investigation were quite complicated,” they say from the body. The criminals took counter-surveillance measures, such as “using cars as decoy, regularly changing mobile phones and even going so far as to use women and small children to give water when they made any movement,” they highlighted.