The paradox/na juárez
Photos: Courtesy Aaron Martell
Chihuahua.-Mayor Marco Bonilla said that surveillance with patrols of the Municipal Police remains on Neri Santos Street, Venustiano Carranza and Heroes Children at the height of the construction of black work known as “Lake of Shrek”.
“In fact we have retired at least 10 times to people who take this area as a housing place, I even offered alternatives to transfer to shelters or shelters,” he said.
The above, after reports of people in street and homeless, who despite landslides in the area, spend the night or spend time within the construction during the day.
The mayor invited the walkers, vendors to report these situations to 911 so that a patrol immediately go to the place, retire to people and avoid an accident.
For his part, Commissioner Julio César Salas indicated that there is no fixed unit, but they will review the frequency of patrols, and noted that they will also notice the National Migration Institute to give alternatives to people in mobility.
A risk for people who inhabit it
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In April of the current year, there was a collapse of a ‘jacal’ with trapped people, where municipal police, firefighters and Red Cross arrived, who transferred three people to a hospital: an adult over 67 years of age, one of 48 years and one younger, which requested the presence of the authorities.
The men were within the black work, also known as ‘The Pantano del Centro’, where the victims had built a ‘jacal’, but due to the recent rains, the shelter collapsed, due to the collapse of one of the land walls.
The place was agreed to avoid the entry of new people.
The “swamp” has almost a decade of abandonment
Since 2016, it was announced as the largest parking in the downtown area, but almost a decade later, the place is accommodation of people in street situations, who are exposed to landslides, exposed and oxidized rods and falls at a height according to the slope in which it is up to 20 meters.
The work lacks prevention signs and the mesh surrounding it is open, which has caused that people are constantly seen within construction, which was abandoned by the government due to the lack of liquidity with just an advance of 30%, without so far, I know how to solve the place.
