NEWS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TIDE PROHIBITS THE CELEBRATION OF THE NIGHT OF THE BURNING

Once again the municipal government of the tide, which is not in La Coruña, has prohibited, in a sectarian and sibylline way, the Meigas Association the celebration of the events planned for A Noite da Queima, according to a written statement sent today by the City Council .

In the response to the requests that were made, in the day, the Consistory expressly stated the prohibition – they call it "negative valuation" – to celebrate, on the night of June 23, the showy entourage, with more than a hundred motorcycles Of the Transfer of the Fire of San Juan; The Cavalcade of San Juan in its passage by the Paseo Marítimo and the burning of the allegorical Bonfire, something that created in 1971 the Commission Promotora of the Bonfires of San Juan, claiming that they coincide with acts organized by the municipality.

This prohibition means, in practice, that the Meigas Association, considered by the tide as second class citizens, is the only Entity that is expressly and manifestly forbidden to burn a San Juan Bonfire in The beaches of Riazor and Orzán where any coruña or outsider can plant and light his bonfire that night.

It is striking, and the cynicism that underlies this prohibition, that this "negative assessment" regarding the burning of the allegorical Bonfire refers more to its montage, on the day of June 21, than to its burning since they Know that you can not burn a bonfire of these characteristics if you do not have the days prior to its assembly and installation.

It also forbids the procession of San Juan to travel, on the afternoon of June 24, the Plaza de María Pita even though the itinerary proposed in the petitions no longer figured to run through that plaza.

This way the San Juan Coruñés will lose, one more year, the most colorful part of its celebration that will be constrained to the burning of a ridiculous session of fireworks according to the consigned budget and the burning of a bonfire, subtracted of artery form and Vile, to the Association of Meigas that, as heiress of the Promoter Commission, had been celebrating it since 1992. A shame that shows, once again, who these people are and what they claim with their anticorúñesismo demonstrated throughout these two Something that may be justified by simply looking for the birthplace of some of the members of this group or their most prominent advisors.

In the hands of whom we have fallen!