“Let’s bring them to those they belong,” Mayor Taxiarchis Verros urged locals. “They can decorate the new center with them too. It is obvious that the new harvest will land there as well,” he stressed.
According to Verros, 13,000 cubic meter of life-jackets are rotting in the former camping area of Molyvos contaminating the subsoil and the air.
Locals blocked the road leading to Karavas since Saturday morning, allowing access to the area only to breeders and their flocks.
Municipality trucks had blocked the same road on Friday. The road leads to the landfill of Lesvos with the effect that the garbage trucks could not reach it, notes local media stonisi.
Municipality trucks had also blocked another road in Diavolorema that also leads to the said land plot.
The mayor had apologized by locals for the inconvenience.
The life-jackets and the blockades are “only the beginning,” the mayor warned the government in Athens.
Residents and local authorities are determined to hinder the construction of the new center.
However, the decision to proceed with the new centers was published in the Official Gazette on Saturday.
The decision refers to “granting of permits for setting area limits, fencing and earthworks for the new closed controlled structures.”
