The company that owns and manages the Maspalomas golf course, a subsidiary of Lopesan, has admitted to sponsoring a property security company called Desokupa Canarias , considered far-right by the extreme left . This weekend, Lopesan, with its €332,4 million share capital, will officially recognize the company, owned by José Yoney Roque Palomo and based in Las Palmas, for the second year. The sponsorship aims to link sports to practices that have been taken to court for alleged malpractice and which has numerous positive reviews on Google from users in Las Palmas who have used its services.
The parent company of Desokupa Canarias, a different company from the one operating on the Spanish mainland with a similar name, has also been involved in buying and selling gold. The company maintains that it always reaches prior agreements by negotiating with those who own properties. A lawyer for Desokupa Canarias stated in a 2021 interview with Mayer Trujillo on Cope Canarias that the typical squatter in the Canary Islands is "a shameless opportunist" or "the typical North African who arrives in a boat to the Canaries; there's nothing else here . "
The prizes for the couples who win the II Desokupa Canarias Tournament come with golf products as well as: special circuits at Hotel Parque Cristóbal in Playa del Inglés, property of the owners of Hiperdino, accommodations at Luxury Rural House El Borbullón, in Teror, property of Luxury Rural House El Borbullón, among others. The raffles for participants include: Festina brand products, Tritón Pest Control voucher, Glorioso brand wines (Bodegas Cosme Palacio), physical maintenance sessions at Gloria Hotels, wellness service at Hotel Parque Cristóbal, theme park tickets Poema del Mar (owned by Loro Parque de Tenerife), Aqualand and Palmitos Park, both owned by Grupo Aspro Parks of Madrid (Cotoner).
The competition is part of the Dunas Golf Circuit, named after the hotel chain owned by HIP Hotel Investment Partners, whose owner is the American fund Blackstone. Blackstone is frequently labeled a " vulture fund " by the far left for managing social housing in cities after winning public tenders, or for owning housing stocks acquired from the FROB (Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring), among other things. This May in Spain, the Constitutional Court issued a ruling on the legal status of squatting in connection with the Housing Law, which the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda described as "good news" for "regulating access to housing."
The Gran Canaria Tenants Union has denounced that Desokupa Canarias is "a private security company that extorts, threatens and even uses physical violence to evict homes", a fact that has been brought to the attention of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of the Canary Islands because from 2022, the PSOE awarded training courses to this real estate security company. In Telde Canarias 7 has reported that they kicked out a tenant who did not pay because he was unemployed since "it is different when a person goes on vacation and a group of individuals occupy the home. So this service can be contracted in a period of 72 hours since they entered, therefore, they should have been treated differently and not like squatters," especially because "The vulnerability of minors may be missing," a lawyer told Canarias 2022 in 7 about the alleged methods of Desokupa Canarias..
The previous case is of a Teldense who had lived for more than 20 years in the Los Llanos neighborhood, in San Gregorio. He was evicted after being "extorted, insulted and they even tricked his little daughter into being able to enter the house and change the lock," Canarias 7 reported. La Squatting in the Canary Islands is an issue that has gained relevance in recent years. The practice consists of illegally occupying a home, whether it is an empty or inhabited property, without the consent of the owner. The lawyers consulted by Maspalomas24H point out that there is no need to resort to judicial means to evict a squatted property. The Security Forces and Bodies can evict without a court order in the first 48 hours. After that period, months may pass until they have a judicial resolution and that is where the owners get involved.
