The Association of Relatives of Alzheimer's Patients (AFA) finally managed to recover the house it owns in Tahíche last Tuesday, which was illegally taken five months ago by the squatters who previously resided in the Senator apartments in Costa Teguise. Now, its president, Manuel Ruiz, will continue his fight to obtain the permits to convert this property into a day center, for which he has been waiting "more than two years" for the Cabildo.
"Fortunately we already have the house," Ruiz has indicated, who nevertheless has complained about the "delay" of the Justice, not only for the five months it has taken to deliver the house despite the entry into force of the express eviction law, which came into force last July, but because he affirms that "two weeks before" the Investigating Court number 3 of Arrecife issued the corresponding resolution, "there were no longer any squatters".
In fact, the president of AFA points out that the "thirty squatters" who took his home left on their own. According to Manuel Ruíz, "most of them have been leaving for some time by dribs and drabs and there were four or five left" against whom there was an expulsion order "for last November 16" and who, according to the neighbors, also left on their own around those dates. Thus, the head of the association does not understand that the Court took "two weeks" to issue the resolution that has allowed AFA to recover the property. "Why so much delay in delivering the document if there was no one there anymore?", he questioned.
He is confident that the day center will see the light "in the spring of 2019"
In any case, the president of AFA has celebrated the news and explained that, after recovering the house, the first thing that was done is to "wall up windows, doors and any hole" to prevent it from being occupied again. "And on Monday I will return to the Teguise City Council and the Cabildo to see if between them they proceed to give us the permits for the future day center," he said.
In this regard, it should be remembered that when the property was occupied, the president of AFA stated that he had been waiting "more than two years" to be able to open the Tahíche day center, mainly blaming the Cabildo. And it is that, as he explained then, the association was waiting for the institution to expropriate or buy part of the land of the farm that borders the road and that is "a danger when maneuvering both for those who access the farm and for those who leave" "The regulations say that the roads must have so many meters of distance from the nearby houses and it is not complied with, so an expropriation or a sale must be made by the administration," explained Manuel Ruíz, who pointed out that for this reason the Teguise City Council did not give him permission to carry out the works.
Finally, according to what the president of AFA has now pointed out, the Cabildo has operated "by buying" that part of the plot, but it is still pending to be taken "before a notary" and therefore the association still does not have the permits, although Manuel Ruíz hopes that they will arrive soon and that the day center "can see the light in the spring of 2019".
