THE National Police was deployed again since early Friday in the Three thousand houses of Seville looking for more weapons and drugs. THE macro raidwhich involves the intervention of 100 agents, is the second phase of the Operation Vulcanwho left this Wednesday more than a dozen detainees and 16 searches in the houses after filming with weapons of war last Saturday. The police also intervened in other areas of the capital Seville (the Palmete district) and the province (the municipality of Carmona). Those arrested are still awaiting trial.
The device focuses this day on the neighborhoods of Murillo and Martínez Montañés (known as Las Vegas), as reported Efe sources close to the investigation. The Judicial Police and more than 80 agents from the special UPR and UIP (anti-riot) units are participating in the operation, supported by a helicopter. The number of detainees has not yet been revealed.
THE Operation VulcanThis, the sources add, is the culmination of several previous investigations, extended over time, which gave rise to two other operations with new records to be achieved. marijuana plantations and act against the possession and use of firearms.
He deputy government delegate in Seville, Francisco Toscanopointed out this week that Wednesday’s macro-operation was already “planned”, but that it had been “expanded” due to the shooting, triggered by the attempted theft of a shipment of marijuana between rival clans of drug traffickers drug. The Caracoleños and Naranjeros attempted to settle scores and exposed their arsenal of firearms. They were heard AK-47 bursts and half a dozen tracer bullets streaked across the sky.
Insecurity of citizens
The new police deployment began a few hours after the meeting held this Thursday between the Mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanzthe subdelegate of the Government, Francisco Toscano, and the commissioner of Polígono Sur, Jaime Bretón, in which the institutional representatives reaffirmed their common commitment to guarantee security, coexistence and the provision of public services in Tres Mil.
More than two decades ago, the City Hall, the Junta de Andalucía and the Government created a special commissioner, with his own office, and a comprehensive plan to try to transform the socio-economic reality of this neighborhood, marked by the social exclusion and crime.
To “solve the problem” in Polígono Sur, where the Three Thousand Homes or the Reina de los Ángeles slum are located, the mayor of Seville announced a few weeks ago that he would benefit from the advice of “international specialists” experienced in the conflict neighborhood of the Bronx of New York in order to respond to a “strategic project of social, urban, environmental and architectural improvement”.
The municipal council also focused on El Vacie, a slum that has existed for almost a century in the northern part of the city and where 180 people belonging to 32 families still live, according to the last municipal census of May 2024. The dismantling of this “ghetto”, as the mayor defined it, is the responsibility of Social Services technicians and the objective is for it to be carried out before the end of his mandate -2027-.
