The national deputy of Vox for Málaga, Patricia Rueda, announced this Friday that her party will register a series of parliamentary questions in the Congress of Deputies regarding the rise in shootings in Málaga. In addition, she will ask the Ministry of the Interior to detail what personnel, resources, and actions it plans to implement to combat organized crime and drug trafficking in the province.
Rueda made this announcement at a press conference outside the Málaga City Hall, alongside the spokesperson for the Municipal Group Vox, Antonio Alcázar. In her speech, she emphasized that the party has been "warning for years about the increase in the crime rate in our streets, violence, and drug trafficking."
The deputy referred to the latest violent episodes recorded in the capital, including the murder of a 20-year-old young man and the shooting that a man received at Muelle Uno. She also recalled that Vox had already presented a proposal in Congress in 2025 in response to the increase in drug trafficking and the presence of an illegal market for war weapons, but "it did not go ahead due to the lack of support from the PP."
"I am surprised now that the City Hall makes big statements when the Popular Party did not support this initiative and, therefore, it did not prosper," Rueda lamented, reproaching the lack of support for that parliamentary initiative.
The Vox representative also directed her criticism at the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, whom she urged to strengthen material and human resources and to provide greater support to the police forces fighting against organized crime, since, as she denounced, "while there are war weapons in our streets, our agents are without resources."
In this regard, she assured that "we will continue to fight in the Málaga City Hall and in all institutions, because it cannot be that the Costa del Sol has become the coast of shootings nor that the people of Málaga walk with insecurity in their own streets and neighborhoods, and, of course, it cannot be that people from Málaga continue to die due to the inaction of this Government."
On the other hand, the spokesperson for the Municipal Group Vox in the Málaga City Council, Antonio Alcázar, has stated that the recent events evidence a worsening of security in the city. "We have been saying this for a long time: Málaga is no longer such a safe city, and we say this because of the events that have occurred recently," he indicated.
Alcázar has added that the Málaga City Council also has room to act. Therefore, he has demanded "a surveillance effort and a preventive effort in the city so that the inhabitants, the citizens, and the neighbors of Málaga feel much safer."