Cort takes advantage of the Son Bordoy urbanization project to evict 170 people from nearby land

Cort wants to evict approximately 170 people who live in They are a gift (El Molinar) some land near Son Bordoy, where Pryconsa is slated to build a 750-unit housing development, a project mired in controversy. The latest involves notices sent to families living in the area ordering them to vacate their homes. Residents of Son Regalo are not affected by the construction of the new development, nor by the roadworks the Palma City Council plans to undertake to access it. In Son Bordoy, which is currently owned by the development company, only about 30 people, including children, live there illegally, according to sources familiar with the case who spoke to ARA Baleares.

Pryconsa has sued specifically those currently residing on its land, 18 of whom appeared in court days after receiving the notification. This figure represents only 9% of the approximately 200 people that the City Council claims live across all the properties. Thus, it is evident that only about thirty people would be affected by the construction of the new development and that the eviction of the nearly 170 people living in Son Regalo is unjustified and in no way related to the Son Bordoy urbanization process.

Lawyers close to the case indicate that the reason Palma City Council wants to evict the residents of Son Regalo "is a matter of aesthetics." "Palma City Council wants to leave dozens of families from Son Regalo homeless at a time of extreme emergency, without any housing alternative, not to build houses or streets, but because They block the views of the new development"They insist. These same sources confirm that some of their clients have no connection to Son Bordoy and have lived in Son Regalo for years.

Sources consulted by this newspaper believe that Cort is using the development company as a "shield" to evict people "without cause." Thus, the development company would be "2" families living in Son Regalo. Furthermore, it should be remembered that the same PP party that now wants to evict them from Cort granted them the approximately 33,000 square meter plot of land in 1993, with the signature of the former mayor. Joan Fageda (PP).

On the other hand, when Francesc Antich's government presented the Son Bordoy project in 2010 with the aim of addressing the difficulty of accessing housing in Palma and under the auspices of the well-known Carbonero Law (named after the Housing Minister at the time), the PP was very critical and used arguments exactly opposite to those it defends now. It even used words like 'ghetto of subsidized housing'Saturation' and 'serious harm to the residents of Molinar'. For all these reasons, local residents and the opposition are questioning the real motive behind Palma City Council's plan to evict approximately 170 Roma people from Son Regalo if there is no construction planned for the area. However, the eviction from this land is currently on hold, as confirmed by the court-appointed lawyers to the residents.