The Prosecutor’s Office guidelines that there is no such thing as a crime within the switch of the Plaza de España in Seville for the celebration of the Icónica music competition | Culture | EUROtoday

The Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Seville has dominated that there are not any irregularities within the switch of the Plaza de España by the Seville City Council to the corporate Green Cow Music for the celebration of the Icónica music competition, which has develop into the third occasion because of financial impression within the metropolis. The public ministry has determined to archive the grievance filed firstly of November by 16 music producers during which it was alleged that the council might see alleged crimes of prevarication, embezzlement, misuse of public property, fraud in contracting or affect peddling dedicated, amongst others, on the grounds that the necessities for his or her fee aren’t met.

The archiving decree concludes, based on sources from the general public ministry, that there was no “arbitrary resolution” or “omission of essential procedures”, the required components for there to be prevarication. The prosecutor reaches this conclusion after analyzing the documentation despatched by the council and maintains that the authorizations for the usage of the Plaza de España, thought of an asset of cultural curiosity, have been processed in accordance with the Ordinance regulating the occupation of public areas within the historic advanced of Seville for actions and ephemeral occasions, and that the choice was adopted after having the favorable technical studies and the cost of the corresponding charges.

Nor does the Prosecutor’s Office think about that there was a “hand-made” award for the years between 2026 and 2031. In its writing it’s reasoned that “the agreements signed” between the municipal tourism administration and promotion firm, Contusa, and the promoter of Icónica “guarantee the municipal will to organize the event”, “without any preferential right or specific reservation having been attributed to that entity.” The public ministry remembers that as of at present “there is no administrative resolution that authorizes the event for 2026” and warns that “any announcement made by the aforementioned entity with respect to a possible event during the next year is made under its own and exclusive responsibility.”

The competition has already confirmed a number of performances for subsequent summer time, together with Jamiroquai, Raphael, Robbie Williams, Marilyn Manson, Lenny Kravitz, Aitana, Moby and Sting. The promoter, Javier Esteban, explains to this newspaper that yearly, by advantage of the settlement signed with Contursa till the thirty first, they have to renew the license. “The City Council receives the project and then must have the OK from Culture, from the Environment… Every year the process is carried out around April or May,” he signifies. “We already signed when the municipal government was socialist that we wanted to hold a sustainable event, that respected the monument and that had a poster according to the city, that is, with a first-class international vision. Since we fulfilled it, we are calm,” he provides.

Green Cow Music, which for the reason that complaining manufacturing corporations started to mobilize in July to demand documentation from the Seville City Council concerning the switch of the Plaza de España, had most popular to stay on the sidelines, has reacted to the Prosecutor’s Office file by defending its good work all through the method and remembering how in recent times they’ve managed to place Icónica as “the best music festival in Spain.”

The firm, which acknowledges that the uncertainty concerning the viability of the occasion brought on by the mobilization of the promoters has made it tough to rent artists, and has “affected them in financial and sponsorship matters,” is contemplating the potential for counterattacking and taking authorized motion for unfair and reputational competitors.

For their half, the 16 complainant promoters, as this newspaper has realized, will enchantment to the courts. The entities don’t share the Prosecutor’s Office file as a result of they think about that their evaluation “has left many doubts to be resolved and has focused especially on the formal appearance of legality of isolated actions without examining the material, continuous and cumulative reality of the events that occurred during the more than 10 agreed years.” They perceive that “legality, equal opportunities and public interest in relation to the use of the Plaza de España” could be defended via judicial means.

The public ministry additionally doesn’t share with the promoters their notion that the City Council rejected gives to carry comparable musical occasions in the identical Sevillian enclave, and factors out that the corporate that offered its initiative, Convertour, supplied “incomplete and incorrect documentation.” The decree states that the cultural or technical challenge mandatory for the ruling and that was required within the regulatory ordinance was not included. Some deficiencies that haven’t been corrected for the 2026 version both.

The Prosecutor’s Office additionally doesn’t think about that the declaration of this competition as of basic curiosity by the City Council has “represented an exclusive award or transfer of the commercial exploitation of the Plaza de España” and argues that in this time Icónica has coexisted with one other collection of occasions of a sporting, cultural, vacationer and institutional nature. Nor does it assist the complainants of their notion that the celebration of the Festival has meant a detriment or injury to the general public coffers of Seville as a result of the promoter paid a decrease price than that paid for the usage of different comparable public cultural areas that happen in different provincial capitals, as they included of their letter. The prosecutor understands that in every of the editions the corresponding charges have been accrued and entered and that the occupation and occasional exercise licenses have been granted in accordance with present laws.

What he does warn about in his writing is the necessity for the administration to adapt its municipal rules “to the changes in the reality it regulates, recognizing the new social dynamics to ensure their effectiveness and adaptation.” In this sense, and once more towards the factors of the complaining promoters, the Prosecutor’s Office considers that the start of the procedures by the City Council to arrange a brand new ordinance that regulates the makes use of, calendars and authorization procedures within the Plaza de España, is the suitable response to this concern.

Since its begin in September 2021, Green Cow Music has managed to consolidate the Plaza de España as an auditorium the place probably the most related figures from the nationwide and worldwide music scene collect annually, with an eclectic mixture of artists. classic and rising singers or teams that assure the attendance of audiences of all ages, from all corners of Spain, day-after-day. After three years of losses, Icónica, as its promoter emphasizes, has develop into “the only major festival in Spain that does not receive any public aid.” During this time, along with confirming itself as a musical reference, a gross sales chief on this nation, it has additionally needed to take care of criticism, particularly from residents of Seville, for the hijacking of a public house, such because the María Luisa Park, throughout live performance days when an excellent a part of the perimeter of one of many largest inexperienced areas within the metropolis is closed to guests, stopping its enjoyment.