The residents of Las Bajas intend to prevent the demolition of their homes by the General Directorate of the Coast and the Sea. For this, the Canary Islands Platform for People Affected by the Coastal Law announced yesterday that will take different legal actions before the Administrative Litigation Court to prevent the loss of houses to the more than twenty families who are threatened with demolition on the beach of El Callao.
This was indicated by the lawyer and president of the group, José Luis Langa, who also explained that the families affected by the Coastal Law “have suffered a double blow.” He recalled that, «at the beginning of this year, the City Council evicted them assuring that they are going to do works that are never carried out; and now, from Costas they are threatening demolition ».
It should be remembered that the department attached to the Secretary of State for the Environment sent, on the 12th, an execution order for the eviction and demolition of these houses. An office in which it is assured “to proceed, by this Provincial Coastal Service, to the compulsory and subsidiary execution of the resolution of possession recovery” of the space of maritime-terrestrial public domain in this enclave, “by means of the demolition and withdrawal of his remains with the restoration of the land to its primitive state ». In the document, in addition, “they are given a period of ten days” for the voluntary eviction of the twenty affected homes.
Langa González stated that «We are facing one more case of neglect of the Canarian reality by state institutions, that proceed without taking into account the history of a people and the rights that these people have, who have lived in these houses for years and for whom they have paid their taxes.
One fact highlighted by the president of the Canary Islands Platform for People Affected by the Coastal Law is that “more than half” of the set of houses that make up the town “are first residences.” Langa determines that, “regardless of this, what is being attacked is private property and a right over some houses that existed long before the Coastal Law.”
In any case, the Platform has decided to meet with all the political groups with parliamentary representation in the Autonomous Chamber and with the General Directorate of the Coast and the Sea in Madrid. In addition, he announced that he will refer this matter to the European Parliament, because “this situation would stop if it were known that Canary Islands he lives and will always live by the sea, “he added.
José Luis Langa concluded by showing “almost certain” that “the courts will agree with us and these people, like many others before, will be able to return to their homes without feeling threatened.”
