golden hills
The Town Hall lacked the means to evict the squatters
16.04.09 - 14:42 -
GOLDEN HILLS. Some of the squatters. / FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ
The gypsy families who had been squatting in the Golden Hills development of 34 empty unfinished flats in Mijas Costa for more than 48 hours have decided to leave of their own accord, according to sources at Mijas Town Hall. The squatters started to move out of the flats in "La Cala Hills" yesterday and go back to the social housing they occupy in the Molino de Viento area.
Some of the squatters had taken personal items to Golden Hills, which had been repossessed by the banks when it was nearly finished.
Civil Guards, Local Police and private security officers are currently protecting the development so that the families don't try to move back again. This morning some members of the families came back and tried to re-enter the development. The security measures have been put in place to stop others trying to do the same as the local gypsies.
Civil Guards, Local Police and private security officers are currently protecting the development so that the families don't try to move back again. This morning some members of the families came back and tried to re-enter the development. The security measures have been put in place to stop others trying to do the same as the local gypsies.
Staff from the Mijas Town Hall Social Services Department visited the squatters yesterday to advise them to leave, something which some of them had started to do earlier in the morning, in the hope that more families would not start to arrive from other gypsy neighbourhoods in Malaga and even from as far as Seville.
The families who decided to squat in Golden Hills live in some of the 25 social houses in Molino de Viento which were built by the Junta de Andalucía in 2002 so that they could do away with the Los Limones settlement and the Torreblanca pre-fabricated homes.
The Town Hall lacked the means to evict the squatters and the only possibilities were that the owners of "Golden Hills" got an eviction order from the courts or that the families left of their own accord.
