The left requires the mayor of Palma del PP, Jaime Martínezthat rewards with a “housing alternative” and does not evict the 300 squatters of the former prison whose number has increased the last month by 30% For a false Effect called Proposed by certain social and political activists that the City Council was going to offer them a home.
The percentage of increase in the number of tenants and causes that the Councilor for Social Services has been revealed on Thursday, Lourdes Roca, Who has reproached the parties of the leftist, socialist, independence of Més and Podemos, who in this matter will look the other way during the two past legislatures when they ruled in Palma.
Eight years in which they did not put a preserve to the squatting of this property, or They offered any solution to the squatters based in this municipal property building for two decades.
Although three months after Mayor Martínez announced in January the next eviction of this building in ruins, given the threat it supposes for the physical integrity of the 300 squatters, it has not materialized, the left has demanded today the first mayor Palmesan who does not do so. Specifically, not to recover this municipal property until they offer them a “housing alternative” to the homeless people who subsist there in deplorable and unhealthy conditions.
The three opposition parties now consider that the eviction of these people, without having provided a solution“It is an irresponsible measure that will only increase precariousness and suffering” of these squatters.
Therefore they claim the current government, a Firm commitment to “find effective solutions that allow them to access decent housing, and while this is resolved, providing adequate temporal resources that allow them to live safely and in decent conditions ».
Okupas many of which often star in all kinds of crimes such as fights, robberies, sale and consumption of narcotic substances and fires.
Despite this social reality, PSOE and Més have supported an initiative of the only councilor of Podemos in PalmaLucía Muñozwhich has been rejected by the Municipal Government of the PP and its Vox programmatic partner, to «Cancel the police requirement records for the voluntary cessation of this outpouring »of public goods.
In this motion, The left claims what he did as he ruled: Provide a dignified and lasting housing alternative to all the people who live in the rare offices of the former prison and register all those installed there to guarantee their access to municipal social services.
The proposal, finally, goes beyond these municipal units and requires the first mayor “the absolute paralysis of evictions without housing alternative of any property, solar or property of the City Council.”
In addition, the left recriminates to the municipal government that the local police are recently in this space and «In a totally irregular way It required the people who were there that they had to leave the enclosure within ten days, threatening to impose fines of up to 5 % of the value of occupied goods and by resistance between 601 and 30,000 euros ».
Finally, these parties regret, “instead of guaranteeing access to a safe and dignified place, this measure only increases the precariousness of the affected people, some of whom has stated that the old prison sees as” the last step before living on the street. “
