“I will fight for my home”, says Anisa while sealing one of the boxes in which, since Saturday, holds 18 years of her life in Don Pepe apartments. “I’d like a judge to tell me what crime I’ve committed,” she says from the living room of her home, a first-floor flat of number 4, block A of the Don Pepe apartments where she lives with her husband, her two children and her dog Hercules, who, protected from the cold with a blue sweater, snoops through the bundles. “My little boy,” she says. With intent. It doesn’t even cross her mind to leave him in a kennel until they find a place to settle in. Anisa’s is one of the 28 families living in the block that the City Council of Sant Josep must evict on December 17, according to the order issued by the court 3 of Palma.
“The City Council, in 1965, gave the ok to these buildings that now the Minister of Housing says are ‘mistakes of the past’. Well, let them deal with it. But no, they are throwing us out on the street, just like that. They just throw us out on the street,” says the owner, who, like most people, does not feel in danger in her home. “Look, there’s not even a crack,” she says, waving her hands at the ceilings and walls. On Saturday, when she found out they were being evicted on Christmas Eve, she had an anxiety attack. The uncertainty in which she has been living for more than a year and a half has taken its toll. Next Friday she has another appointment with the psychologist. “They are stealing our homes, killing our health and destroying our families,” says Anisa, who demands a solution from politicians.
So far, they have not contacted her to offer them a temporary place to live. “We know this from the press conference,” says the owner, who is keeping “important things and papers” in a suitcase so that, with the jumble of boxes, she doesn’t lose track of them. “This is unfair. Nobody has looked after us,” she continues, leaning against the wall at the entrance, where her daughter Yasmina has painted a tree of life. “She paints very well,” she says, looking for the T-shirts the block painted with their hand prints when the mobilizations began, one of them with a direct message to the mayor: “I hope you’re a better taxi driver than mayor.” Those T-shirts don’t go in the moving boxes, they have to be on hand. “They are tearing down the foundation of my life and my children’s lives. I can’t allow this,” continues Anisa, who reminds us that, even if they are evicted from their home, they still have to pay the mortgage. She doesn’t even want to think about the building being declared a ruin: “They would take away our mortgage, but who will pay me back these 17 years?
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