The City Council will sanction the campers who bathed in the fountain of the statue of Carlos III de Sol

The Madrid City Council will sanction the people camping at the Puerta del Sol home who used the fountain of the statue of Charles III to bathe. It will do so once they are identified since at this time their access is "very difficult", according to the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, due to the number of tents there are. "The problem here is not that they want to hold a rally, it is that they want to do it outside the law," he stressed.

So far, the City Council has imposed more than 200 sanctions for different "non-compliance" with the capital's ordinances, such as consumption of alcohol and drugs on public roads or cleanliness. "We are thinking about what it will cost all the people of Madrid to clean up so much waste that they are going to leave there, the dirt that there is going to be and all the damage that there is going to be in the street furniture. We are aware that they are going to leave us with a little shame in charge of all the people of Madrid," he said in an interview in Cuatro, where he censured the campers for "privatizing" Sol.

One of the measures that the Community of Madrid has taken is the closure of the Sol Metro station (lines 1, 2 and 3) without a reopening date for health reasons. In this sense, the mayor has warned that "the problems will continue" if the camping continues for longer. "This is not closed on a whim, this is closed because there is a reality that is incontestable and that is that this lack of hygiene and health can end up affecting travelers and workers," he stressed. The regional government has adopted the closure resolution based on a report from an external laboratory commissioned by Metro that reports that concentrations have been detected that "equivalent to approximately 80% and 61%" of an environmental daily exposure limit value (EDV) for ammonia of 14 mg/m3.

Almeida has welcomed the decision of the Community of Madrid to close the station to "safeguard the hygiene" of travelers and workers on the Madrid underground. Beyond health, the councilor has once again demanded that the Government Delegation vacate the Sol concentration for safety. "We all know that Sol is one of the busiest we have in the city of Madrid and that it has a large crowd of people. In this case, evacuation conditions or even circulation conditions are not guaranteed," he stressed.