Ayuso closes the Sol Metro station due to the "unhealthy conditions" of the "illegal camping"

The Community of Madrid has closed the Sol Metro station due to the "unhealthy conditions" caused by the "illegal camping" around the home, which this Saturday will complete three weeks of protest in Puerta del Sol.

The central Madrid suburban stop will undergo "urgent cleaning" and other "security" processes, after detecting on Thursday afternoon through a technical report the presence of toxic gases derived from "the accumulation of urine, excrement and other organic waste" in the Metro's wells and ventilation accesses.

Some "very serious" events in the eyes of the Community of Madrid, which this Friday made the decision to immediately close the Sol station to undertake these works.

Metro de Madrid has announced in its X account that the Sol station is closed and that trains do not stop there.

"We are going to have to close it. They have requested it from occupational risk prevention and the unions," Isabel Díaz Ayuso had announced during an interview on EsRadio. "Right now there are unsanitary conditions inside" the facilities, denounced the regional president.

At the moment it is unknown how long the station will remain closed, which has been in the eye of the political storm in recent days precisely due to the situations of overcrowding and crowding registered due to the mobilization of teachers and the camping at kilometer zero.

In this regard, on Wednesday the National Police decided to close the access to the Metro station for a few minutes for security reasons when they detected that significant crowds were forming.

Cercanías Madrid does keep the Sol station open

For its part, Cercanías Madrid, dependent on the Government of Spain through the Ministry of Transport, has announced on its social networks that the suburban station remains open.

"Renfe Cercanías Madrid today keeps the Sol station open and available to its users, since no health problems have been detected in its facilities" they have published in X.

A camper arrested in Puerta del Sol after threatening one of the coordinators with a knife

Agents of the National Police arrested a man camped in Puerta del Sol this morning after he allegedly threatened one of the coordinators with a knife.

The arrest of this 61-year-old man occurred at 2:30 a.m. this Friday. According to police sources who have confirmed to Europa Press, a young woman camping was heading towards what seemed like an outbreak of fight when she saw this coordinator running between the tents because the suspect, who threw a beer at her, was chasing her with a knife.

The incident would have started at the moment when the coordinator approached the point where the detainee was due to the loud noise that was being produced there.

After the call received, the Prevention and Reaction Unit of the National Police appeared at Puerta del Sol, where the individual was eventually arrested.