The Tenants Union, the PAH, the DESC Observatory, LaFundició, and the La Florida Neighborhood Association called a press conference last Monday, July 29, to denounce a change in criteria by the courts of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat to accelerate evictions and make public a manifesto open to adhesions (which you can sign below).
Recently, these organizations have been informed that the criteria for executing eviction orders have changed. As a reaction to the growing organization of residents and the action of entities for the right to housing, the new judicial secretary of the courts of L’Hospitalet has decided that if the first eviction is stopped, the dates for new evictions will be modified, with the result that, within a maximum period of 20 days, the intervention of the Regional Operational Resources Areas (ARRO) of the Mossos d’esquadra is enabled to execute the eviction order.
This modifies the assumptions with which judicial action was circumscribed in cases of eviction, where resolution with a term of approximately 90 days was common.
For the complaining organizations, this means further increasing the difficulties of social services areas that are already totally overwhelmed, which generates a clear contradiction between the judicial and administrative action that goes to the detriment of the people affected; who see their right to housing even more violated. All this in a context where practices prohibited by law, such as evictions with open dates, are returning.
As a reaction, both the PAH, the Tenants Union, LaFundició, and neighborhood organizations such as the La Florida Neighborhood Association have launched a campaign of denunciation seeking the adhesion of individuals and groups to demand the intervention of the Hospitalet City Council so that the courts modify the criteria for executing eviction orders in the city.
DENUNCIATION MANIFESTO
Mari is a single mother of a 3-month-old baby; she lives in a situation of risk of residential exclusion and, rather than ending up living on the street, she has been forced to recover a home from the BBVA. She has tried in every possible way to negotiate with this banking monster to pay a social rent and give her baby a roof, but the BBVA wants to kick them out onto the street. For their part, Social Services and the City Council claim not to have housing for alternatives for them, so evicting them is violating their basic right to live under a decent roof.
There are too many families in Hospitalet in the same situation as Mari. The lack of response from the Administration, rents that have risen 40% in 4 years, and the impoverishment of neighborhoods make this city the perfect setting for banks and speculation funds to roam freely.
In addition, the Courts of L’Hospitalet are ordering open evictions, a practice totally outside the law and not included in any rule. On the contrary, articles 21, 437, 440, 447, 549, and 704 of the Civil Procedure Law establish the need for a date and time to be set for the launch of evictions.
If this were not critical enough, the Courts of L’Hospitalet assume an interpretative criterion, whereby a period of 10 days will be given between eviction and eviction, calling the Mossos d’Esquadra the second time and reinforcements from the Regional Operational Resources Areas the third time.
This is an interpretation of the rules that is at least questionable from the defense of the right to housing and its place in international law and jurisprudence to which Spain is linked. And with it, the judges are pushing the residents of Hospitalet to the economic and social precipice, instead of applying superior laws and international treaties that protect families.
For all these reasons, we are addressing the judicial apparatus of L’Hospitalet to request that an emergency meeting be convened during this week between the Dean Judge and the undersigned groups with the aim of reviewing the eviction protocol, adjusting it to international criteria in defense of Human Rights.
At the same time, we are launching a public denunciation campaign of these events, requesting the adhesion of people and groups to this manifesto and with the necessary citizen mobilization to end this systematic violation of everyone’s rights.
Organized citizens will not consent to one more eviction.
Against financial genocide.
Families first. Together, yes we can.
Signatories:
Tenants Union, PAH, DESC Observatory, AViV La Florida, La Fundició
Join the manifesto here:
Adhesions (as of July 23, 2019):
Entities:
Asociación de Vecinos Independiente de Bellvitge (AVVIB)
Associació Cultura Tretze
CNT L’Hospitalet
Col·lectiu Akelharre
Espai la Figa
materic.org
Mujeres Pa’lante
No Més Blocs
Parròquia Sant Benet Casa de Reconciliació
Punt Òmnia JIS-ARRELS
People on an individual basis
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Abolafia Ruedas, Montserrat
Adell Hernández, Pere J.
Albújar Fernández, Jose María
Alemán Antón, Montserrat
Alzamora Metino, Laura
Ayllón Hermida, Borja
Babi Vila, Maria Assumpció
Baldé Auladell, Marta
Balfagón Iniesta, Marc
Barquer, Arnau
Brugger, Matthias
Candial Lansac, Alex
Canela Sánchez, Maria del Roser
Casellas, Rubén
Castro Díaz, José Luis
Cervera García, David
Contreras Sánchez , David
Cuadrado Fernández , Isabel
Dalurzo Blanco, María Rosa
Esteras Bernaola, Miquel
Extremera Valverde, Cristina
Font, Joan
Font, Jordi
García Garzón, David
Gómez Guindos, María Teresa
Gomez Navarro, Amalia
Gómez Navarro, María Isabel
Gómez Serrano, Carmen
Góngora Padilla, Enrique
González Alba, Ana Isabel
González Rodríguez, Maria José
Kogan Pardo, Estela
Latorre Reolon, Andrea
Manjón, Elena
Martínez, Oliver
Massana Llorens, Mª Pilar
Messeguer Espada, Victor
Mora Romero, Silvia
Murillo Vitoria, Cristina
Nieto Delgado, Teresa
Núñez Ruiz, Emma
Pachón Esquinas, Hilario Manuel
Pahissa , Siscu
Pallàs Cardona , Nacho
Peris Alarcón, Sonia
Reyes Diaz, Montserrat
Rico, Manuel
Rius Delgado, Alfons
Roda del Cuerpo, Ingrid
Rodríguez, Raúl
Roura Trias, Montserrat
Rubio Perera, Francisco
Ruiz, José
Ruiz Ramos, Carlos
Sabaté, Esteban
Sabaté, Irene
Sala, Elena
Salido Hernández, Rosa
Sanchez, Margarita
Segurado Iriondo, Francisco Javier
Sotillo García, José Luis
Torre Delgado, Mario
Tuñón, Tatiana
Tur Ibañez , Sandra
Valle, Jordi
Vinagre, José
Zabala Gil, Alba Maria
Zapata, Carmen