Santa Fe is A municipality of the Vega de Granada (Granada) of Luenga Historia and somewhat less than 15,000 neighbors that has just sneaked into headlines From the whole country for a peculiar motive: to have declared war on such an entrenched custom, as grenadine, as summer and apparently as peaceful as taking chairs to the streets to chat the fresco during the sunsets of the summer. Or so They interpreted it The networks until the mayor has been forced to take the floor to calm the spirits.
The controversy has stirred a curious question: Can the grandparents continue enjoying long talks forming corrosons on the sidewalks, sitting to the fresh?
The origin of everything: a tweet. The check From the Local Police of Santa Fe in X it does not reach the thousand followers, but holds the dubious honor of having published one of the most controversial tweets of recent weeks. The reason? On Tuesday, May 27, early in the afternoon, the police station launched A message in his profile in which he warned about the risks of placing chairs on the sidewalks to chat.
“We know that taking chairs or tables at the door is a tradition in many villages, but public roads are regulated. If the police ask to withdraw them, do it out of respect and coexistence. With civism and common sense there are no discomfort,” he said The messagewhich in a matter of a few days has accumulated 6.5 million visualizations, around 6,000 responses and It has been replicated in media All Spain.
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Why’s that? More than for the message itself, for the image that accompanied him and the association of ideas he suggested. The notice of the Local Police of Santa Fe included A photograph in which you could see a group of six old women sitting quietly in the semicircle in front of a house, on the sidewalk.
Plastic and folding chairs. Pleasant chachara. And a group of elders enjoying the fresco of the sunset after a hot day. An almost traditional scene that we have been seeing in the streets (both in Santa Fe and other peoples) and cinemas without to date having generated the slightest controversy.
And the scandal arrived. It doesn’t matter that the rest of the Santa Fe Local Police publications accumulate just a handful of Likesor comments. The famous grandmothers’s tweet ended up viralizing, jumping to media like South Canal, ABC, The Spanish either local newspapers and unleashing a heated debate in X in which the sneer and indignation were combined. “Enough impunity for grandparents who take the fresco when the afternoon falls. All the weight of the law”, Ironiza A user.
“Handling and misrepresented”. The controversy climbed to such an extent that a few days ago the mayor of Santa Fe, Juan Cobo, granted An interview To the Cope chain to clarify what they allow and what do not allow municipal ordinances and what the police really wanted to convey with their famous message. The talk It has hung in full On the official website of the City Council and basically clarifies that the elderly of their breaks on the sidewalks have never wanted to deprive. “It has misrepresented. It seems that there are no more important news,” He lamented The mayor.
A for “uncivic” attitudes. Although The tweet of discord It was accompanied by the photo of a group of old women sitting on chairs on the sidewalk, smiling and in peaceful attitude, Cobos nuances that the message was actually intended for other people: those who occupy the public space of the town with “uncivic” attitudes. From there, he says that no one in Santa Fe pretends to prohibit the elders of the town that they continue to take chairs to the sidewalk at sunset to hold quiet conversation and at schedules in which they do not bother the rest of their neighbors.
“No one will prohibit our elders from going to the door, feel and enjoy the fresco. Not much less. This is intended for those who, doing uncivic acts, put themselves at the doors with the excuse of taking the fresco, cut the streets, put barbecues, sing, touch the guitar and leave everything in that way,” Cobo precisewhich ensures that the municipal police station receives an “avalanche” of calls from people who complain about that kind of behavior.
The key: the regulations. The mayor It goes further And remember that what is and is not allowed is regulated in an ordinance prior to its arrival at the Consistory, a rule that seeks to guarantee “the coexistence and rest” of the residents of the people. “What they are doing is to remember that there is an ordinance, that the fresco can be taken, but without disturbing others,” The councilor insists In reference to the tweet. “People who get up at five at six in the morning have the right to rest.”
“Our elders who have the absolute certainty that they will be able to continue taking the fresco as until now,” The first mayor remarks Before complaining that the news about the supposed war of Santa Fe against afternoon on the sidewalks has come out of mother, with statements that he believes “manipulated.” In summary: the elders of the people can continue enjoying such an entrenched, so peculiar tradition that there are Who thinks which deserves to be a World Heritage.
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