After a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Antipolygon Assembly has celebrated this Sunday its traditional march to the pLas Bardenas shooting range to demand its “immediate dismantling” and reject the increase in the military expenses “at a level not seen since the Cold War”, in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine.
The mobilization, which is celebrating its 33rd edition, has started from Los Aguilares at noon and has covered the four kilometers of distance to the vicinity of the shooting range. Over there, Blonde Miracles and Edward Navascueson behalf of the Antipolygon AssemblyThey have read a manifesto in which they have highlighted the importance of “reactivating the mobilization” and having a Government of Navarra “that takes this issue as a primary objective.”
Likewise, they have highlighted their commitment so that the current agreement, which will end in 2028, is not renewed, for which they have demanded “the pronouncement of the entire parliamentary arc and the Navarrese government itself.” They have called for the mobilization of citizens so that the Board of Bardenas “do not put your signature again so that the shooting range continue in Bardenas, no matter how much money they offer in exchange”.
“We are not going to let the city councils and governments of Navarre and Aragon look the other way and ignore the importance and seriousness that a new lease would entail”, they added. In addition, they have indicated that they will take this issue to Congress and the Government of Spain “because it is necessary to repeal the ‘Aznar Decree’ of the year 2000, which declared the territory occupied by the firing range as an ‘area of interest for national defense’, thus preventing that territory from being declared by the Parliament of Navarre as part of the Natural Park”.
The Antipolygon Assembly He has criticized that the invasion of Ukraine by Russia “has triggered military spending”, which “in 2022 rose to 2.24 trillion dollars, the equivalent of 2.2% of global GDP”, “to the detriment of the necessary expenses social”.
“In a scenario in which the drums of war are sounding closer and closer, the installation of the Bardenas Shooting Range on our land is a growing cause for concern for the safety of nearby populations” because they are “strategic military installations , since it is about the only firing and bombing range of the Spanish Air Force and the most important in Europe for the I’LL TAKE“, they have warned from the collective. “These characteristics can turn the Bardenas firing range into a military objective of the first order in the event of a hypothetical warlike confrontation in Europe”, they have warned.
To all this they have added the “real danger” for the residents of the towns near the facility “as a consequence of the increasingly intense and persistent bombardments with live ammunition near our homes.” “There are numerous accidents that have occurred over these long years of existence,” they have pointed out, giving as an example that “recently an F-18 crashed during maneuvers at the Zaragoza base“.
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2023-06-04 15:00:35
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