According to a statement of the Movement of Ecologists, they received a complaint about intervention of the Municipality of Ayia Napa in Makronisos beach. The municipality's intervention, they note, took place on the beach where there is an archaeological site, while there were sand dunes next to it.
"Sand dunes, which not only do not belong within the coastal zone of the Municipality of Ayia Napa, but are forest land. The dunes in question were flattened - illegally - probably in order to place cots on the spot. According to the information we received, work on the site started last Friday, which the Forestry Department stopped immediately, while taking advantage of the weekend, the Municipality flattened everything," it says.
The District Secretary of Famagusta of the Ecologists' Movement - Citizens' Co-operation, Mr. Michalis Paraschos, as he says, immediately contacted the Forestry Department, which confirmed the complaint we received, that the Municipality of Ayia Napa carried out these illegal interventions. "According to what we were told, the Municipality of Ayia Napa has already been denounced by the Forestry Department to all relevant departments," he said.
"As the Movement of Ecologists - Citizens' Cooperation, we express our strong dissatisfaction with the actions of the Municipality of Ayia Napa. Unfortunately, it is an intense phenomenon, all over the island, that the environment and nature are being destroyed on the altar of ephemeral economic gains."
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