Real Madrid, denounced for receiving aid from the City Council in the works

The works in Santiago Bernabéu have generated controversy. A group of more than one thousand citizens in Madrid has organised like the Association of Prejudiced by the Bernabéu and has decided to carry to the Executive of José Luis Martínez-Almeida, mayor of Madrid, in front of the European authorities. They accuse to the City council of several irregularities in the processing of the project to build a tunnel and two subterranean parkings near of the stadium and of the Walk of the Castellana.

The association has presented a demand in front of the Court of the Contentious-Administrative number 30 and also has registered a complaint in the office of the European Commission in Madrid. They allege that the City council has broken the community right in matter of environment and has awarded public helps to the Real Madrid, since the consistory, and no the institution chaired by Florentino Pérez, will pay 11,7 million euros by the works of the tunnel.

In what bases this complaint?

The complaint in Europe bases in two premises. In the first place, they argue that the City council transacted the project without making the study of necessary environmental impact. Second, they sustain that the public helps benefit only to the cast merengue, since the construction of the tunnel will explode the structure during the next 40 years.

The denouncers también signal the yielding character that will have the tunnel for the white club, mentioning the prices of parking foreseen and the design of the tunnel, that suggests big plans by part of the square vikinga, including a direct entrance from the underground to the interior of the Bernabéu.

In his demand, the denouncers emphasize that they have committed numerous infringements, like rapes to the Law of Agreements of the Public sector, the norms urbanísticas of the General Plan of Urban Ordination of Madrid and the Special Plan of remodeling of the Bernabéu of 2017. The residents' association argues that a project of this magnitude, that includes a tunnel of 650 metres of length with four subterranean levels and more than 2000 squares of parking, requires of a Special Plan backed by reports of traffic and a Control Urbanístico Environmental of Uses.

Which is the argument of the mayor of Madrid in front of this case?

The past Tuesday, the mayor of Madrid had the opportunity to tackle this situation and affirmed that the project of the Bernabéu is "properly made" and fulfils escrupulosamente with the law. Aunado To this, ensured that it will generate more than 70% of squares of parking. However, the neighbours deny categorically these arguments.

This contrasts with the reality, since they will reduce to two the lanes of circulation of the street Father Damián and will delete around 600 squares of parking in surface, which does not compensate with the 547 squares that will award to residents and workers in the 2000 subterranean spaces planned.