60 evicted as fishermen village is demolished on Tenerife

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60 evicted as fishermen village is demolished on Tenerife
By h.b. - Oct 8, 2008 - 8:28 AM

One of the evicted residents at Cho Vito yesterday - Photo EFE

The hamlet of Cho Vito does not meet the requirements of the Ley de Costas, Coastal Law

Bulldozers moved in yesterday morning to knock down a number of properties at the fisherman’s hamlet of Cho Vito in Santa Cruz de Tenerife as the homes do not meet the regulations of the Coastal Law.

Crowds gathered to witness the moment as the oldest of the properties, dating from 1939 and owned by the man whose name, Cho Vito, now also refers to the whole district, was demolished. By the end of yesterday only 7 of the 31 homes remained standing and some 60 people had been evicted from the properties.

More than 100 people including Guadia Civil and others were needed to enforce the evictions of some of the residents of the property under the judicial order.

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Comments

David
08 Oct 2008, 11:14

WHAT WAS THE POLITICAL MOTIVE BEHIND THIS ONE?

Patrick
08 Oct 2008, 12:53

To David et al, the Political motive behind this is Hard Cash! These homes MAY be illegal but it has taken this long for any Council or Government to find the need to take any action against the owners/occupants. However there is a Promoter who has submitted plans to build a "Paseo Marismo" where the houses stand and nothing but nothing gets in the way of construction in Spain whether it is needed or not especially when there is money to be made simply by saying "Si" and evicting a few dozen men,women and children onto the street? Who cares what happens to them,they shouldn't be living in the properties anyway.The fact that they, and their parents before them did and nobody did anything about it is neither here nor there? So the motive isn't Political at all, simply yet another one of Spanish palms being greased in a country where the level of corruption is on a par with that of the Latin American Brothers that Zapatero "loves" so much and the Eastern Bloc.

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