Yesterday from 9am, Don Pepe residents expected the police to arrive to ask them to leave their homes. The 72-hour deadline set by Sant Josep City Council in its eviction decree had expired, after last week’s announcement that it was commencing the demolition of the building and offering two months of accommodation for the 60 people to be evicted from the Bon Sol apartments in Platja d’en Bossa. But, at the time of going to press, the owners were not planning to leave their houses until they had a court order, while the City Council declined to provide any information on the matter.
The owners, most of the residents of Don Pepe, remained in their homes in case the eviction order arrived.
In the morning, some tenants who lived in block A of the Don Pepe apartments, who had contacted the social services of Sant Josep to file for the eviction. But, apart from the residents on a rental basis, the owners, the vast majority, maintained their intention not to voluntarily agree to the eviction, as the City Council wanted last week.
A close friend of the neighbours, with a supportive banner. VM
Background
The Town Hall claims that the building, made up of five staircases, with 46 apartments and two commercial premises, suffers structural pathologies . For this reason, on June 4 of last year he ordered the eviction of staircase 1, where four days earlier a piece of the ceiling of a room fell. 20 days later, it repeated the evacuation with another ladder, warning in both cases the safety of its residents.
Picture of the parking space in block A. VM
Meanwhile, the neighbors announced that they wanted to carry out the repair works, but the The City Council rejected this possibility, arguing that the property was out of order. The urbanization consists of two buildings, built in 1964, but only one license appears in the files, block B, which is now not affected by this process of declaration of ruin and eviction order, although the municipal administration claims that go through the Technical Inspection of Buildings, having more than 50 years old.
An affected individual looks at Block B of Don Pepes. VM
The chronicle
Throughout the weekend, residents of Don Pepe have mobilized to publicize their situation, with the display of banners in different parts of Sant Josep and Vila and through social networks. Shortly before nine o’clock in the morning yesterday, a good number of friends and family had already gathered next to block A. Many of those affected from the two stairways evacuated last year and from the other block of the urbanization also joined the the protest rally against the eviction that, they feared, could take place during the day.
Courts
The community asks that the eviction be stopped
The legal representative of the owners yesterday requested a very precautionary measure to stop the eviction decree of the Sant Josep City Council.
File
They will appeal the declaration of ruin of the property
The community of owners has also announced that, through their lawyer, they will appeal the ruin declaration file of the City Council and ask for “political solutions” so that they can repair the building.
“At the moment, we have no news, but Ángel Luis Guerrero , the mayor, had announced that the local police, psychologists and social workers would come today, and even the Civil Guard in case we were getting stupid”m said the president of the community, Silvia Hernández. In his opinion, this situation would not have occurred with Guerrero’s predecessor until last February, Josep Marí Ribas, Agustinet, currently in the Ministry of Mobility and Housing of the Government.
“He had a more conciliatory treatment. In November I had breakfast with him to get to know each other and talk about how we could help the neighbors”, recalls Hernández. She does not know when the eviction may take place and assures that many of the neighbors have not officially received the notification, so she understands that the 72-hour deadline has not yet been met.
In addition, the lawyer for the community presented that same morning to the courts a very cautious request to stop the evacuation. “Resolution takes a few days. Now we hope that sanity will triumph, because we have enough evidence in our reports to say that neither this bloc nor the other bloc are going to fall”, Hernández emphasizes.
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