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Marbella’s beaches are suffering from the recent rains, as a large amount of newly laid sand washed out into the ocean.
The Asociación de Espigones Emergidos para Marbella (AEEM), a group campaigning to protect Marbella beaches from being washed away, have repeated their demand that Marbella council install groynes before the imminent wave of beach-going tourists arrive in the Easter holidays.
The collective held a press conference on Fontanilla Beach on Thursday, March 6, to highlight the destruction of one of the most popular beaches in Marbella, where they invited the deputy delegate of the government in Malaga, Javier Salas, to ‘come to Marbella and meet us.’
The group filed a lawsuit in February 2025 against the council because it did not listen to their demands. It is still pending before the courts. The sudden loss of sands that the council had only placed on the beaches at the beginning the year has only amplified this group’s arguments, particularly in the case of Fontanilla and Cabopino.
‘Not even 20 days have passed, and a mini storm has already taken at least 55 percent of the sand that the council had taken from Cable Beach and deposited here,’ said Lima, chairman of AEEM, who went on to remark that ‘we warned that all this movement and this expenditure of money was going to be lost in a very short time.’
Lima says that, ‘We don’t have any containment groynes, and so all the sand they put here gets washed away year in and year out,’ reproaching the council for misspending funds. ‘It’s as though we are throwing money into the sea.’
