A public parking lot in Palma with syringes: "I've found people injecting themselves and blood on the walls."

PalmMaria (the fictitious name of a resident of Manacor Street in Palma who requests anonymity) says that every time she has to leave her car in the public parking lot below the Wifi park, her heart races because she often finds "people shooting up, blood on the walls, puncture wounds, and feces." She adds that this makes her feel "unsafe" in a place where she believes she shouldn't be. "It's not fair that I have to fear leaving my car in my parking lot," she emphasizes.

Meanwhile, two parking lot workers at the ARA Baleares have admitted that "sometimes" they find people taking drugs, traces of narcotic substances, and human feces, but they point out that in summer "it happens less than in winter because it's very hot." However, they affirm that from midnight to six in the morning is the time period when they usually find the most people using drugs.

They link the influx of people who go to get high in the parking lot to the area where it's located, next to Soledat, a neighborhood where drug dealing is common. "They go there to buy it, sit on the parking lot steps, and snort it," they explain. Therefore, the workers say they work in fear and demand that Palma City Council hire security personnel to remove people who don't use the facilities properly. "We can't do anything other than ask them to please leave because we're not security guards and, besides, we have other jobs to do," they say.

If they're asked to leave and they don't, the workers contact the control room, from where they call the Local Police. "And sometimes they come and sometimes they don't," they explain. In this regard, they emphasize that the parking lot is "very close to a Civil Guard barracks."

The workers complain that the Municipal Parking and Projects Company (SMAP) has increased the number of parking patrols they must perform during each work shift. "We don't like the word 'patrol' anymore because we're not security guards," they insist. Furthermore, they acknowledge that if they have to perform the patrol alone, they don't do it because they're afraid. Therefore, they ask the Cort (City) to close the parking lots, "as was done before," and to install systems that allow entry only to those with tickets.

Furthermore, the employees also point out that they must clean up feces and syringes "without any special equipment." However, the SMAP asserts that "there is a contract for parking lot cleaning, and the workers in charge of this service have the appropriate equipment." Furthermore, the Municipal Company points out that it has hired more workers and has also installed PA systems at the stops to "give the appropriate warnings."

Although the parking lot workers on Manacor Street assure us that this "doesn't only happen at this establishment," Cort explains that "only reinforcement actions have been taken at this facility."