The Government requires the removal of two minutes of footage of corruption in a series on coastal destruction made for English television.
Ministry English Environment has blocked the broadcast of a documentary commissioned by TVE Cristina Narbona in 2006 on the destruction of the coastline and was funded with 1,292,874 euros of public money. The Government requires the removal of two-minute video in which images overlap newscast on urban corruption as one of the evils of the coast, the ministry says it wants to avoid "tendentious interpretations" .
The head of the series, Granada professor Costas Miguel Angel Losada, refuses to remove this fragment: "Unfortunately, corruption is part of our history. This is a censure and the pictures of the Provincial Valencia ". series The banks of the Ocean Sea is anything but neutral, especially Chapter 12 on legislation. Under a truly spectacular aerial images announcer narrates:" The coast concentrates a substantial part of the crime against the environment and town planning, housing and judgments illegal demolition. Behind it lies the social complicity with urban corruption, manifested by the connivance of some officials, public officials, professionals and service companies. All of them have consented to the illegal activities and corrupt practices. Why are there so many excesses, abuses and corruption? ". You can see the video at this link .
then adds: "Much of the English coastline is in private hands, Build, profoundly altered or destroyed. In many cases there are no rights of way, protection and access to the sea." On The Algarrobico (Almería), wonders if restates "in economic development at all costs."
lawyers speak in the documentary as Thomas de la Quadra, the prosecutor responsible for the Environment, Antonio Vercher, which defines environmental damage as "collective suicide, something brutally regrettable" - and Fernando Palao, the editor of the Coastal Act 1988. The latter, who was Secretary of State in promotion until a year ago, calls for "stricter enforcement" of the rule and has called publicly for "quaint" the actions of the current team of Costas with bars.
The series cites specific cases of abuse such as urbanization in the Prat de Cabanes and proposes dismantling the settlements in the front line and Moncófar Chilches (all in Castellón). The video puts into the public domain and wondered whether it would be more logical to move them instead of artificially regenerate beaches.
"The series had absolutely no political directive. Not only that, but they gave me full freedom to reach goals that were well defined. TVE and I are not an advertising agency, said yesterday by telephone Losada, who led the series with journalist Benito July, now deceased. Losada added that out of respect Benito can not change the film that closed. The series has was filmed over two years with TVE staff.
The agreement between the ministry and the University of Granada, sets out 10 objectives of the documentary. The first one: "Send the coastline belongs to all citizens and we all have the right and duty to use it and protect it, to respect and ensure respect for their management, organization and control. "
The ministry officials saw the number six months ago and raised technical objections. According to Lozada, he accepted them except to remove two minutes in which, with images of the newscast, latent corruption: Telde, Andratx, Marbella ... Losada justify their resistance: "These images are essential. It is part of the history of this country and not me, but the newspapers every day. Unfortunately, it is a part of our history and hide if we are condemned to repeat it."
A ministry spokesman admitted yesterday in an email that, apart from technical objections, the department heads Elena Espinosa "requested the removal two minutes of a chapter 45 in stating that was the problem of coastal urban corruption. "And justified:" For the Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, the situation of the English coast respond to poor urban planning and over-built, regardless of corruption is unfortunately a reality in coastal areas.
Losada
details how was that meeting, on 24 February at the ministry, "said the secretary general of the Sea [Juan Carlos Martin Fragueiro] gave the order to those images Chapter 12 does not emit. The 13-part series are linked and as a writer not consent to encroach and do not authorize the issuance of if not the entire series.
Environment considers that "has not banned or censored any chapter of this production and argues that" a series of informative and educational nature, backed by the same can not contain any error or lead to inaccurate or biased interpretations. "The ministry and TVE", he concludes, "are waiting for these changes can be made so that it can issue a series that considers of great interest."
Miguel Ángel Losada admits that the series shows gross things against the Coastal Act and against the Constitution. "images from the air are, many of them very painful because they show a deterioration a unique and unrepeatable band turned into a strip to build buildings. "
For underlying the differences between the current management team and Narbonne, much more aggressive in urban public against abuses on the coast. There are several examples change, which industry sources justified by the economic crisis, pressure from European countries against expropriation and the fear of losing votes. In December 2008, the ministry sent Congress a legal reform which softened the Coastal Act to allow legally sell the houses built on the beach before 1988. The reform is stuck in the House. The Coast Sustainability Strategy of the last legislature, which provided massive demolition to retrieve the public domain, remains in a drawer. The deputy of the Government in Almería reversed the decision of Cabinet to expropriate the carob tree, something that Greenpeace has taken to court because it believes that a local deputy has no authority to correct a decision of the Council of Ministers.
MORE CONTROVERSIAL CHAPTER
-HALF. The series The banks of the Ocean Sea comes the agreement signed between the Ministry of Environment, which provided 1,292,874 euros, and TVE on December 12, 2006. Each chapter opens with the logos of the ministry and TVE.
-CORRUPTION. Includes two minutes of footage the newscast on land scandals: Marbella, Andratx, Gondomar, Telde ... The Government requires elimination; not believe that corruption is the cause of the disorder on the coast.
- EXCESS. The film shows aerial images of La Manga del Mar Menor and wondered why the State must finance the defense against storms and said cases such as Marina D'Or or carob.
- TACKLES. The team shot kills on the coast in the two years of the work. The series suggests that villages situated along the coast-Chilches and Moncófar, Castellón, for example, be transferred to the interior.
-THE WRITER. Miguel Angel Losada, Professor Costas in Granada has been responsible for the screenplay and appears in the documentary. Refuses to remove references to corruption: "Unfortunately, it's part of our history."
-old equipment. Acknowledgements begin by the previous leadership of the ministry in Costas: Minister Cristina Narbona, the secretary general, Antonio Serrano, and the director, Jose Fernandez. No current team contains the
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