Neighbors of Andorra ask for sensory lighting before the destruction of robberies
The community of residents of the Regalicial neighborhood asks the Andorra City Council to place lighting with motion sensors in Jaganta and Híjar streets to deter thieves who in recent months have entered several houses both day and night, having or no people inside.
The owners of some of these 33 houses, grouped together in a cooperative, have intensified the complaints before the Civil Guard for burglaries and continuous robberies. The thieves enter through the back of Jaganta street, the least lit and traveled area, with pine trees and other vegetation around.
By means of a letter registered in the consistory, considering that the problem could be solved simply with the city council placing public lighting with motion sensors in the area to avoid impunity for those who assault homes, in addition to other solutions that the City Council deems appropriate , as could be the endowment of more places in the Local Police, whose current staff is not enough to cover the night shift.
The latest robbery was perpetrated this week at the home of Javier González Sediles, who discovered the thieves red-handed when he returned home with his wife at around 8:15 p.m. “We had gone to eat with the intention of returning around 5:00 p.m. and it was later. When we arrived we were inside and we caught them there. The scare was big and it did not get worse because they jumped over the fence again and left, ”said the affected person.
The thieves “left everything in a mess and we are still assessing the things that are missing because there are cupboards lying around and so on,” explained González Sediles, still frightened, who misses “some jewel.”
“In the whole town”
The president of the El Regalicial neighborhood community, Olga Grau, expressed her concern and that of the entire town, “because it is not only happening in our neighborhood” but also in other places such as Teruel Avenue. “The truth is that they have it very easy to enter because there is no light and they enter through a kind of park that is up there, among the pines. We don’t know what to do, we feel helpless and for the moment we have presented this letter to the city council to put more vigilance, more lighting in that area”, located above the Manuel Franco Royo school, Grau said.
“They accessed the garden of my house in the summer and they did not get to enter from behind, through the kitchen, because they bit and my son was watching TV. Previously, in other houses they had stolen the garden chairs and in October they entered another house”, recounted Grau, who also cited that in the patron saint festivities of San Macario there were robberies in the area.
Thieves often break in in the late afternoon, home time, carrying jewelry and cash, but not computers, televisions, or phones. The president of the community believes that the criminals have them all under surveillance. “They know when we enter and when we leave because they are very daring: enter at any time and the feeling of insecurity we have is total.”
lack of lighting
Grau attributed this situation to the lack of lighting since “at night there is no Local Police, and there are Civil Guards; You call a patrol and it comes from Híjar, it takes more than half an hour when there is a barracks here in Andorra”.
“This is already getting out of hand. At the moment we have done this writing and, if nothing is done, we will have to take other measures ”.
Both Elijo Andorra and Izquierda Unida asked the acting mayor, Joaquín Bielsa, about this situation in plenary session on Wednesday. “It is unfortunate that we have this insecurity in the rural world. It is an area that is a bit dark and we have to pick up the gauntlet to place lampposts in the part that hits the pine trees and that gives greater security”, said Bielsa. On the other hand, the mayor also called for a “try by all means to complete the Local Police staff” so that these robberies “do not repeat themselves”, so that “it serves as a deterrent and that citizens are safer.”