The National Police continues to surround the Tres Mil Viviendas drug houses after the shooting on the night of October 12 in which bursts of fire compatible with weapons of war were fired. This Wednesday the Murillo neighborhood woke up again under siege by a hundred agents in the third phase of Operation Vulcano – which was deployed last week with two macro-raids – who have dismantled four marijuana plantations in homes that were uninhabited.
So far, only the seizure of marijuana has been reported and the arrest of those involved has not been reported. In the two other phases of the operation, carried out on Wednesday and Friday of last week, yes there were arrests —a dozen in the first and at least two in the second—that went to judicial disposal. In those raids Drugs, other narcotic substances and weapons were also seized, that is being analyzed. Investigation sources indicate that, although the device is intended to stop crime in the Polígono Sur, the operation will remain open until the weapons used during the shooting on October 12 are fully recovered.
After this exchange of shots, the authorities recovered at the scene, in the area called Los Verdes due to the color of the facades, shotgun cartridges and 9 millimeter caliber casings, used for short weapons, and 7.62, used for weapons of war. So far it has not been confirmed that the assault rifle compatible with that ammunition is among the weapons seized.
After the shooting, the mayor of Seville and the Junta de Andalucía They blamed the Government for the lack of security in the Three Thousand Homes and they demanded more police presence to avoid creating a sense of impunity in the poorest neighborhood in Spain, whose endemic problems of poverty, school failure and violence have been aggravated by the spread of drug trafficking in the area’s homes, many of them abandoned. . These three macro-raids are the response of the central Executive to the criticism of the other two administrations with powers to eradicate socioeconomic degradation in the Polígono Sur. The subdelegate of the Government, Francisco Toscano, has insisted these days that the problems of the Polígono Sur cannot be limited to the lack of security, placing emphasis on coordination in labor, educational and urban matters, competencies that concern the regional level and municipal.
This unusual police deployment has had its first consequences in the sharp drop in electricity consumption at the transformation center that supplies the residents of Los Verdes, Los Marrones and Las Vegas, the epicenter of the raids in recent days, but also one of the enclaves of the Polígono Sur where it is observed a greater overload of the electrical grid derived from the cultivation of marijuana. The dismantling of plantations of this material – nine last Friday and four this Wednesday – has caused a decrease in demand, also supported by the initiative of the drug traffickers themselves who, faced with the risk of being investigated, have gotten rid of their material by abandoning it. in garbage bags on the streets of Tres Mil.
These two behaviors, the appearance of bags full of marijuana, and the decrease in demand, are common every time there is a police raid in the neighborhood. On this occasion, the decrease in consumption on October 15, the day in which nine plantations were dismantled by the National Police, was 40% in the Endesa transformation center that supplies the area of Los Marrones, Los Verdes and Las Vegas. This plant, according to data provided by the electricity company, supplies the 250 customers who have a current contract, although it has the capacity to supply 1,400. Before the raid, consumption was equivalent to that of an industry. “The demand from the transformation center is reduced by eliminating the demand derived from the plantations,” indicates an Endesa spokesperson who emphasizes that a plantation indoor In a home it can consume the equivalent of 80.
All in all, the electricity company’s experience determines that in a few months consumption will increase again because the narco flats will be reactivated. “In the case of police raids it usually takes a little longer, when we are the ones who cut the illegal connections, the reconnection is almost immediate,” indicates the interlocutor, who insists that it is not the neighbors who set up the plants, but the organized mafias that have been spreading this type of crops indoor through the neighborhood.
