Members of the platforms Tenants’ Union of Tenerife, Montaña Clara for the Right to Decent Housing and neighborhood associations of San Isidrodenied yesterday at a press conference that the company unoccupiedexpressly coming from Madrid, “offered money to the residents of the Tabaiba building for a social rent and thus convinced them to leave the property”, just as they denied security problems on the roof so that they “cut off the water supply of the drums that the neighbors have installed”, lacking a supply network, as is the case with electricity, which they obtain thanks to solar panels on the same roof.
Yoanna Rodríguez Trujillo, a member of these groups, said yesterday that “we do not understand how the new owner of the building, a Romanian with aluminum companies on the island, hires these thugs to throw people out on the street, when almost everyone has the trial for eviction on May 17”, believing that he does so because “he should not have all the papers in order, because this building is not even registered as such”, recalling that a little more than 10 years ago “the then mayor, Jaime González Cejas , allowed many people to occupy the 48 houses, in which children have been born who are now suffering this outrage.
He also commented that Desokupa has threatened to return on Monday “with 40 or 50 more members” to kick them out of their homes, by “hook or by crook,” said Yoanna Rodríguez Trujillo, a resident of the nearby Las Acacias building, where fifty People are also subject to possible eviction. It is the permanent almost daily history of San Isidro.
