Marta Andreasen compares Zapatero to Mugabe as she attacks Spain over Britons whose homes face demolition

Marta Andreasen compares Zapatero to Mugabe as she attacks Spain over Britons whose homes face demolition
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By h.b. - Jul 6, 2010 - 5:30 PM
The UKIP EuroMP has made a second attack on the Spanish Prime Minister, just as she did at the start of the Spanish Presidency of the EU

Marta Andreasen - Photo taken from You Tube video below

The UKIP Euro M.P., Marta Andreasen, already famous for asking the Spanish Prime Minister, at the start of the Spanish presidency of the European Union, about the Britons under the threat of losing their homes along the Spanish coastline, has done so again as the presidency has come to a close.

As José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was in the chamber in Strasbourg to answer questions about the past six months, Marta Andreasen pounced to ask him whether he intended to confiscate the Briton’s homes, just as was done in Zimbabwe. She compared the demolitions along the Spanish coastline to the colonial repossessions in Zimbabwe, and spoke strongly for the defence of the Britons who have been ‘cheated’ in Andalucía. She said that people from her constituency feared that ‘the situation in Spain will be ‘similar’ to that suffered by the Britons in Zimbabwe and the Mugabe regime, given the ‘risk of confiscation’ of British owned homes in places such as Albox in Almería, and asked if this was the treatment in a ‘friendly and European’ country.

Andreasen went on that the situation being produced was a violation of human rights, as well as being an important element in the crisis now suffered in Spain.
‘Are you waiting for the European Union to come to rescue a country where this violation is continued to be produced without the central Government deciding to intervene?’ she asked.

She went on to criticize the attitude of Spain regarding the houses which are now affected under the new Ley de Costas.

Zapatero said he considered the comparison with the Mugabe regime as ‘inadmissible’, that he could not accept it ‘under any concept’, and said that he ‘drastically’ rejected it. The Spanish Prime Minister insisted that Spain is a State of law, in which the laws are respected.

‘We are the first to feel close to these people, in this case Britons’, he said, ‘who could have been the object of a fraud by some predator in the real estate sector. And in this sense we are working in the European Parliament with the parliamentary groups and we will work and we will do all that is in our hands’, said Zapatero.

He noted that the very same European Parlaiment had demanded on more than one occasion that Spain environmentally protect its coastline, and that is why he defended the need to apply the Ley de Costas, to protect against the ‘real estate vortex’ and combat the abuses which could affect the natural spaces.

Last March, the British Secretary of State for Europe, Chris Bryant, visited eight British families living in Almería whose homes have a judicial demolition sentence against them, and last year a meeting of the European Parliament threatened Spain with the freezing of their European aid, if the matter of urban abuses denounced in Brussels was not resolved.

Meanwhile the Financial Times has reported that UNESCO has threatened to remove the ‘Biosphere Reserve’ category from the Canary Island of Lanzarote. The island is under investigation following the large scale development if illegal construction which has taken place in some of its coastal areas.
Lanzarote was granted Biosphere Reserve status in October 1993.

Watch Marta Andreasen’s You Tube channel here

The video below is from today (Tuesday) - a search on Typically Spanish will find the video of her earlier attack from six months ago.

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