[NEWS] Prosecutor's Office investigates the opening of four beach bars in Castellón before July 1

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Gecen environmentalists reported to the Prosecutor's Office the construction-assembly and opening of the four beach bars before July 1 "in breach of the regulations" and may incur "a crime against natural resources and the environment

 

 

The Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Castellón -Environment and Urban Planning Section- has initiated Criminal Investigations for the investigation of the opening of four beach bars on the El Gugurú and El Pinar beaches, in Castellón, before July 1, as indicated by the Environmental group Gecen in a statement.

Ecologists have reported that the Prosecutor's Office has adopted this decision after receiving a letter of complaint from this association for the construction-assembly and opening of the four beach bars before July 1 "in breach of the regulations, facts that, provisionally and alone For the purposes of their investigation, they may be classified as a crime against natural resources and the environment, a crime provided for and punishable under article 319, 320 and 404 of the Penal Code, "according to the statement.

Gecen has pointed out that the Pativel regulation, in the case of the El Gurugú and El Pinar beaches, is a "favorable" instrument of the "essential" ecological transition that must protect against climate change and conserve biodiversity.

"Creating the necessary functional and protective green infrastructure involves respecting at least the scarce and insufficient regulations in force, the Pativel, which has not occurred," added the environmental group.

Gecen stressed that, as stated in the standard, the Pativel, it is necessary to wait until July 1 for the beach bars to open and thus respect the nesting season for the black-backed plover. "The administrative precedent, to set up and open the beach bars before July 1, cannot be applied if there is a specific mandatory rule that prevents it, the Pativel," he said.

"The regulations, obviously, are well known to Costas and for this reason, acting intentionally to breach them falls within the scope of the crime of prevarication, taking into account what is stated in the Penal Code," Gecen concluded.

It should be remembered that the leisure companies asked the Provincial Coastal Directorate, under the Ministry for Ecological Transition, to endorse the report of the Valencian Generalitat in order to bring forward the opening of the beach bars this year of the coronavirus pandemic and that the Entrepreneurs waited for such authorization.