The Platform of People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) has held a protest in Folías street in Arrecife, where this Friday an eviction has been carried out of a family that had already left the house "due to the pressure they were suffering". The judicial commission and the National Police have arrived at this place, where members of the PAH were waiting for them, who have made a "corridor of shame" and have explained to these officials that "they can refuse to carry out these evictions".
The members of this platform have shouted slogans such as "Sheepish civil servant, aid to the banker", "You can refuse, you can become aware" or "Yes you can, but you don't want to". In addition, they have stated through a statement that they will not try to prevent these officials from carrying out their work, "snatching another family's home to hand it over to a bank that will leave it empty and closed waiting for an improvement in the market".
With this act, the PAH intends to raise awareness in society of what is happening "every day silently in this country". "Every day, the Judicial Commission goes out to take possession of apartments that are already empty of people, empty of strength, empty of hope, empty of life. Empty because the pressure and threats from the bank have managed to end the resistance of one more family. And since the police don't push, the press doesn't visualize that silent aggressions against Human Rights and against the rights of minors occur every day," the PAH has denounced.
From the platform they have pointed out that if the judges applied the legislation and jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice, "of mandatory compliance, by the way, there would be no evictions." "If they fulfilled their obligation to review the mortgage contracts themselves ex officio and point out the abusive clauses that populate all mortgage loans, there would be no evictions," the PAH insisted.
Appeal to the sensitivity of officials and police
The Platform considers that if the officials "objected and refused to apply an unfair Law, an unfair resolution that is dictated in a procedure in which their lordships have not read the contract when the Law itself obliges them, there would be no evictions." "And yes, you can and have the right to say 'I don't do it'. The much criticized position for life of the official has precisely that meaning, to be free and independent to be able to say no to orders from superiors that do not comply with the law," the PAH has requested, thus appealing to the sensitivity of the officials.
Likewise, the platform considers that "if the Police defended the citizen, their equal, their neighbor, the father and mother of the children who play with their children, there would be no evictions." "Your job is not to blindly obey orders, that is the excuse under which the greatest crimes against humanity have been committed. We know very well that there are police officers who have been sanctioned with loss of salary for refusing to participate in evictions. A part of your salary is not as big as a decent home for a family. A part of your salary is well worth arriving home and being able to look your children in the eye, because you are not ashamed of having left their friend from school living on the street," the PAH has pointed out.
For this reason, the platform has asked the police to "worry about what they can do" and stop being "a part of the problem to become a part of the solution." "Let's not allow a single corridor of shame to occur," demanded the members of this group.
