Two more old houses in Las Rapaduras that were frequented by drug addicts are walled up

This August, the City Council evicted three properties with conflictive people and closed four drug dens in the neighborhoods of the capital of Lanzarote

September 3 2024 (17:55 WEST)
Updated in September 3 2024 (17:57 WEST)
Two more old houses boarded up in Las Rapaduras
Two more old houses boarded up in Las Rapaduras

The Arrecife City Council continues to wall up old buildings occupied by conflictive people. On this occasion, they point out from the Consistory that "two families who own two old houses in the Las Rapaduras area, with access from León y Castillo street, have recently proceeded to wall up their accesses, through windows and doors, to prevent their occupations." Until now, they point out, "these properties, which in past decades housed bars, were frequented by drug addicts as drug dens."

The Arrecife City Council had requested, with efforts from Mayor Yonathan de León, that they proceed to close them with block walls. Since the end of August, their owners have covered the expenses and proceeded to wall them up.

These works were carried out in the parallel days of the end of August where the mayor had decreed the walling up of a smoking den located in the same area, with access from Cádiz street, on the borders of the residential neighborhood of Los Alonso.

The Local Police of Arrecife was monitoring this smoking den, and with its investigations and monitoring, Mayor Yonathan de León, ordered its walling up for reasons of security and health.

 

"August, an active month in evictions and closures of smoking dens in Arrecife"

During the past month of August, the Arrecife City Council evicted three properties with conflictive squatters, after the Local Police received the request for mediation from the owners of these properties. Until now, the residents of some areas of the neighborhoods of Maneje, Argana, La Vega, and the center, were experiencing tense situations that affected the safety of those streets, due to the presence of violent squatters. Now, tranquility and security, after the actions of the Local Police of Arrecife, is breathed in these neighborhoods.

 

Likewise, during the past month of August, four drug dens were closed in the neighborhoods of the capital of Lanzarote, located in Maneje, Argana, Las Rapaduras, and in the vicinity of Pedro Alcántara Square, in the center of the city.

 

Mayor Yonathan de León has remarked that the Local Police, which has been equipped in recent months with camouflaged cars and technological devices, is conducting investigations and monitoring in different areas of Arrecife to achieve coexistence and security in different sensitive points of the island's capital.

 

Arrecife closes this Wednesday a new controversial drug den in the Las Rapaduras area
Arrecife walls up this Wednesday a controversial drug den in the Las Rapaduras area
Third walled property in Arrecife that was used as a 'drug den'. Mayor Yonathan de León visited the area this morning
Arrecife walls up another house that was used as a "drug den"
Arrecife City Council workers walling up the property used as a smoking den in the Maneje neighborhood.
Arrecife seals off a garage in Maneje used as a drug den
Interior of the evicted house in Argana. Photo: Arrecife City Council.
Arrecife seals the recently vacated house in Argana and assures that it was "a source of conflict"
Arrecife City Council workers bricked up the entrances to this house yesterday. Works escorted by the Local Police. Action carried out last night
The City Council walls up another occupied house in the La Destila neighborhood in Arrecife
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