The families that live in the urban skeleton of the Pechiguera Lighthouse face a new judicial procedure that could culminate with their eviction from the unfinished and occupied urbanization in the town of Playa Blanca, in Yaiza.
The Court of Instruction number 5 of Arrecife has issued two notifications to the occupants of the houses located in Austria street of the coastal town of Yaiza to appear in court on September 23.
This new chapter arises after last November a court in Arrecife closed the case for usurpation opened against the occupants of this property, understanding that the property should undertake a civil procedure and not a criminal one against them. In addition, the property did not appear at the appointment scheduled by this procedure.
In the new judicial action, initiated by precarious eviction, Coral Homes SL, the entity that owns the land, has requested the eviction of the families as a precautionary measure. In a recent case, from January 2024, the Court of Instruction number 4 of Arrecife agreed to evict a hundred people, including 24 minors, from another block of unfinished and abandoned houses in the same town as a precautionary measure. However, the Provincial Court of Las Palmas pointed out that this measure was not appropriate and that the use of precautionary measures is intended to ensure compensation that is added to the criminal process and "should not be simply and plainly the anticipation of the penalty."
In a procedure, this time for precarious eviction, the entity Coral Homes SL, formed by the American fund Lone Star and Caixa Bank, tries to evict these families as a precautionary measure. For the moment, the judicial body is summoning the occupants with the aim of identifying them. Meanwhile, the property values the claim at something more than 28,500 euros per house.
