The mayor of arafo, Juan Ramon Martinconfirmed to NOTICE DIARY that the City Council has been working on a file for two months to proceed with the taping of a building that has been vandalized for some time, with the continuous presence of young people who use the abandoned building to organize parties, with drugs and alcohol, the noise being almost permanent, according to the complaints neighboring neighbors.
Martín agrees with the neighbors and affirms that “I understand their anger and indignation, and that they are scared and afraid”, but clarifies that the file to act on private property “is being complex”, although he hopes that “in a medium or short time, about two months, we can proceed to cover the building and then we will pass on the expenses to the company, which for now, according to the Land Registry, is still the construction company Joco Ilca SL, although we have not been able to locate it, and it is on its way to pass to the creditor bank”.
This group of residents of the municipality of Arafo, both individually and on behalf of the community of owners of the El Drago building, have been denouncing, without success, before the Arafo City Council, the Local Police and the Civil Guard, the serious state of insecurity that is lived in the area, at the confluence of Obispo Pérez Cáceres street with the Güímar-Arafo general highway, with the “meetings” of young people in that abandoned building that adjoins others.
According to one of the affected residents, who withholds his name for fear of reprisals, in the evenings these young people carry out drug sales, parties and fights and even “invade our property jumping over the roofs and reaching the roofs, there have even been robberies, like that of a diving team”, he comments.
The community points out that they have already made several complaints individually and collectively to the Arafo Town Hall and that “both from the Local Police and from the Civil Guard we are told that this building is private property and that therefore there is no possibility of intervening”, beyond the fact that a “public disorder” occurs outside.
Faced with a situation that they consider to be “defenseless”, the aforementioned neighbor reports that “we have no choice but to publicly denounce a situation that all the residents of the building and surroundings have been suffering for quite some time now. We feel helpless.”
According to this neighbor, the young people who often go to the abandoned building, of which there are hardly any doors or windows left standing, full of filth and broken glass, “are from the town”, but lately “young immigrants who are welcomed in two houses of Arafo and the fights and noises are continuous”.
In no case is the building in question “squatted”, they are only used as a “public square” to hold parties, leaving traces such as “condoms and syringes”, point out the residents of the El Drago urbanization, the most affected by what It happens almost daily in that “ghost” building.
