The Arona Courts in Los Cristianos have opened proceedings against the environmental activists who staged various incidents at the construction site and offices of the Cuna del Alma developers in Puertito de Adeje in the south of Tenerife.
According to judicial sources consulted by SER, the complaints filed by the developers have been unified and ratified by a judge. The investigation will continue with the summons of the denounced ecologists so that they can testify in the next few weeks.
The proceedings refer to a confrontation in the morning of September 25th last year, when a group of activists camped on the Puertito de Adeje construction site to protest against the Cuna del Alma project, who claimed that members of a ‘security company’ hired by the developers tried to forcefully evict them.
Following this the protestors moved to the Cun del Alma show apartment, where the project director, Andrés Muñoz, was based. The activists protested loudly outside the building but two of them went inside and videos show them shouting insults and slogans accusing Muñoz of corruption and publicly shaming him.
Muñoz tried to get one of the activists out, which sparked a struggle that the environmentalists described as assault, as during the altercation a young woman was grabbed by her neck and ended up falling to the ground. Eventually, the Guardia Civil managed to get the young woman to leave the building, while the others continued shouting outside and banging on the windows.
However, in an unusual turn of events, the activists have also filed a lawsuit against the project's director. For now, the judicial proceedings are still ongoing both in the courts of Granadilla de Abona and in Arona (Los Cristianos).
Regarding the Cuna del Alma project, after receiving two unfavourable reports and a sanction proposal from the General Directorate of Heritage of the Government of the Canary Islands due to possible damage to archaeological sites, the Department of Ecological Transition ordered the temporary suspension of the works.
