The elevator in La Casona continues to cause scares: five Lagunillas residents heading to the meeting were trapped for 45 minutes

The elevator in the east wing of the Mansion has that thing they say about the people from Granada, which we won't repeat to avoid being... cancelled, but it's common knowledge at the Malaga City Hall. When it 'smokes the fish', now in Malaga tone, it locks the doors and doesn't recognize passengers. Those who are inside, stay inside without remedy. As long as it takes until they are rescued.

In February 2025, it was the turn of five socialist councilors and a councilwoman from Con Málaga, who, as reported by this newspaper, were locked in a rather small cubicle for 50 minutes, some on the verge of a claustrophobia attack. Since then, it had given a few more scares, but last week the damn elevator began to show that something was not right with it, and it was going up limping, as if warning that any day it could frighten again. Well, this Monday it could not take it anymore, and it has acted up again. Out of the blue, five members of the Lagunillas Association, including Curro López, who were going to speak at the plenum to improve the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) in Andalusia and to demand resources for their food bank in Lagunillas, ended up suffering the unfriendly elevator in the east wing, which at Christmas can be something like Mr. Scrooge.

"We were joking around, but when my wife and another lady started feeling bad, we began to get anxious," says Curro López

Eventually, Curro López ended up speaking at the plenum, after the scare his wife Sara and another associate from Lagunillas, Abida, experienced, and he uploaded a video of the ordeal to his social networks. Later, the councilors and the Corporation celebrated Christmas with a drink in the Hall of Mirrors, but the elevator, in a disappointing mode, left a bad taste in the last ordinary plenum of the year. The municipal area in charge of this service should take a look at it because riding in the mentioned elevator has already become a high-risk mission.