SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 18 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Platform for People Affected by the Volcanic Eruption of Cumbre Vieja 2021 has announced today Saturday that it is preparing allegations to the decree-law referring to the reconstruction of the homes of people affected by the volcano and has also advanced that it postpones until March 19 the next concentration, when he plans to call a new demonstration in which they hope to have the 7,000 affected.
This group, which is the one that brings together the largest number of people affected by this catastrophe, has stated in a press release that the coming weeks will be crucial to decide the claims that the victims will assert before the public administrations.
The Platform has indicated that the proposal that the Canary Islands Government has put on the table “generates discrepancies about the uses that are to be given to the new soil under which the properties of thousands of people were buried.”
Likewise, it maintains that there are “many doubts about the planned procedures (exchanges of residential land and agricultural land concentration), the guarantees of receiving the value of the lost, the time it will take to have land where to cultivate again and where to build new homes, as well as aid to make rebuilding homes possible for those who lost everything”.
The Platform recommends to those affected that at this time they are very attentive to all the information that is being published, that they attend public meetings that deal with these issues and that they join associations where they can receive advice and form a common front with other victims.
According to the group, “all of this is necessary so that the appropriate allegations are presented, both individually and collectively, in the coming weeks so that the decree laws being prepared by the Canary Islands government respond to the will of those who suffer from this catastrophe and can really serve to recover the life projects of so many thousands of families”.
PERMANENT CLAIMS
In parallel, the Platform has indicated that it will continue to insist on the need for legislative measures such as the reform of the 1954 Expropriation Law, so that the properties are paid at the price they had before the eruption, as well as a Legal Statute Law Affected by the eruption, to guarantee the rights of economic, urban, social and personal dignity.
It also demands the delivery of the recordings, minutes and reports of the meetings of the steering and scientific committee of the emergency plan (PEVOLCA) before the eruption; the payment of aid of 30,000 euros committed by the Canarian Government, and the cancellation of mortgages and loans linked to assets destroyed by the volcano, as well as many other claims that will be defended again on March 19.
Likewise, this group encourages us to support the protest acts that are called and to be aware that the problem is of such dimensions that it is necessary to form a common front among the thousands of those affected, so that the strength of unity allows us to achieve objectives that even now it has not been possible to obtain from the public administrations.
