- "Apparently this Platform has not even read our motion, because we expressly indicate that our plan should rely on the municipal structures that already exist as the Local Housing Board, and that one of the things proposed by Cs is to make a qualitative and quantitative census of the occupation in the municipality, as they defend "has informed the spokesman of Cs that ensures that it is so irresponsible," create unnecessary alarmism as being indifferent to a real alarm signal "
- "Before launching generic releases throughout Spain to criticize a motion that is not known, accuse us of political opportunism, or (nothing more and nothing less) to criminalize vulnerable families as if we were an ogre with nothing better to do, it would have been more productive than request a meeting to be able to explain point by point what we want to do and why, "says Manuel Padín
On the occasion of the generic statement that the PAH has launched in all the Spanish municipalities where Ciudadanos has presented its plan to combat illegal and violent occupation, the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, has once again assured that, contrary to what supports this platform, in the municipality is more common than it seems this phenomenon in its violent version and many are the neighbors who have approached the Municipal Group of Citizens to denounce this situation.
"We have seen it first-hand in La Palma, in Pozo Estrecho, in the neighborhood of Virgen de la Caridad or in Barrio Peral, among other locations," said Manuel Padín, who recalled that the motion that his group will defend at the next Plenary. ordinary is designed to the millimeter to combat with determination the increase of crimes against the patrimony and the deterioration of neighborhood coexistence related to illegal occupations in the municipality.
"Apparently this Platform has not even read our motion, because it expressly stated that our plan should rely on the municipal structures that already exist as the Local Housing Board, and that one of the things proposed by Cs is to conduct a census qualitative and quantitative of the occupation in the municipality, distinguishing also between the mafia occupation of that which is done out of necessity ", clarifies Manuel Padín who assures that" once this is done, the City Council will have at its disposal the real data of this phenomenon, as well as of people in a situation of vulnerability, and it will be possible to act in both directions ".
For Manuel Padín it is "so irresponsible to create unnecessary alarmism as to be indifferent to a real alarm signal, in any case, before launching standard announcements to criticize a motion that is not known or accuse us of political opportunism, or nothing more and nothing less that of criminalizing vulnerable families as if we were an ogre with nothing better to do, it would have been more productive if they requested a meeting to explain point by point what we want to do and why. "
The spokesman for Citizens reports that "our Plan, if it is read carefully and without ideological prejudices, not only deals with property owners and citizen security, but also deals with solidarity, in order to prevent illegal occupation from becoming an alternative common to meet a housing need ".
According to Manuel Padín, "public administrations should promote social policies aimed at facilitating access to housing by disadvantaged sectors, for this purpose, it is contemplated that the social fund of housing units made up of housing units will become permanent. financial entities".
The Citizens' motion, in detail
The spokesman of Cs, Manuel Padín, already explained to several associations of neighbors and social groups that the Orange Training Plan pursues the implementation of a Plan for the Protection of Coexistence and Neighborhood Security against illegal occupation that includes, among others measures, the creation of an Office for the Defense of the Rights of Neighbors Affected by Illegal Occupation, as the body in charge of ensuring security and neighborhood coexistence.
Manuel Padín informs this platform that the Office that proposes Cs must have a monitoring unit against illegal occupations to coordinate surveillance actions and instruct the administrative files that accredit the facts contrary to the ordinances on matters of coexistence and citizen protection starting from the denunciations in a centralized point of neighborhood attention against the usurpation, so that it serves like test in the pertinent judicial processes ".
The Cs proposal includes the immediate reinforcement of the police presence and preventive patrolling in the areas affected by the occupation problem and that, within a maximum period of three months from its approval, the work for the preparation of a census be initiated. of quantitative and qualitative occupied housing, where the type of occupation is indicated, differentiating the mafia occupations of the people who carry them out for reasons of necessity.
"This is the truth of the motion presented by Citizens to the City of Cartagena, often, the occupation is promoted by organized crime groups, as intermediaries trying to make a profit by taking advantage of the desperation of many families who lack housing or that they have lost it in an eviction, or using the property as a base of operations for other criminal activities, such as drug trafficking in the so-called narco-flats ", explained Manuel Padín.
For orange training, this growth in cases of illegal occupation has its origin, on the one hand, in a lack of legal instruments that allow reacting once they have been verified and promote an effective and agile eviction of real estate, and, on the other hand, in a shortage of human and material resources to detect these occupations and execute the corresponding eviction orders.
Manuel Padín said that "the lack of response from the public authorities generates a feeling of lack of protection for the legitimate owners as well as for the neighbors who have to face this type of situation, as well as impunity for the mafias that carry out this type of Criminal activities".
"It is necessary, therefore, urgently strengthen our legislation to ensure safety and citizen coexistence," said the orange spokesman who also reports that "has been a Proposition of Law (PL) for this purpose in the Congress of the Deputies, whose admission to processing will soon have to be submitted to the consideration of the different Parliamentary Groups ".
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So far, neighborhood associations and social groups that have known the text of the motion have accepted this plan, "which greatly strengthens our position before the Plenary meeting on April 26 that will have to decide the implementation of this structure that we propose, "said the spokesman for Citizens.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena