Neighbor camping in the City Council evicted: "They sent 5 policemen to take out two women"

The Police evicted Gabriela, the woman who is about to be evicted and who had camped this morning in the Recova of the Arrecife City Council as a protest against the lack of social rentals, at around 3:30 p.m. this Monday. According to the neighbor, "they sent five policemen to take out two women," since at that moment the councilor of Ganemos, Leticia Padilla, was with her, and she pointed out that they were given "only one minute" to dismantle the camp and go out into the street. The Consistory has not confirmed the eviction but has assured that the possibility was considered, because "being in a public institution they could not, and it would be the Police who would kindly invite them to leave."

Both the mayor, Eva de Anta, and the councilor for Social Services, Victoria Sande, had approached two hours earlier, according to the City Council, to talk to this woman, "to worry about what the solution was and explain the help that can be offered by the City Council." However, Gabriela affirms that "the mayor came down very late, around 2:40 p.m., at the last minute." "The mayor has not given me any solution" and "has asked me to take the eviction order to see if she could talk to the owner of the house" and thus "buy time", Gabriela assured La Voz. For her part, she has told De Anta that "there is a judicial order of eviction, of eviction, of lifting, whatever you want to call it" and that therefore "it can no longer be done."

"Well, if you don't want to do it, then it's not done," the neighbor has assured that the mayor has replied, but she has pointed out that "it's not that I don't want to, but that it's the owner who doesn't want to." "What else is she going to talk to her about? She has already spoken to the lawyer," the affected party has pointed out."That house is not mine and I understand that it is her right to recover it", she has underlined.

"I'm going to do whatever it takes"

"After all the turns I'm going through and the scare I've had now with the Police, I'm going to stay here until the last consequences and I'm going to do whatever it takes," said Gabriela, who is now camped in the street, in front of the capital's Consistory. "And if they want me to commit suicide here in front of the City Council, I'm going to cut my veins here because I'm already tired of so much incompetence," she added.

As for the other neighbor, José Carlos Garrido, who had joined Gabriela's protest due to a problem he also suffers with his home, he left the City Council throughout the morning of this Monday, according to the neighbor of Arrecife.