One of the eight concessionaires of the beach bars of the contest under suspicion of Formentera in the spotlight for his insubordination has begun to be dismantled. The businessman Bartolomé Escandell, manager of the beach bar Bartolo de Caló des Mort, has confirmed to La Voz de Ibiza that the work has already begun. In fact, the terrace has already been dismantled in the last hours. Nothing more he wanted to say about it.
This is the first beach bar to begin dismantling work. Last year none of the eight concessionaires complied with the obligation contained in the concession title to be dismantled between January 15 and February 15.
This insubordination orchestrated in collusion with the government of Sa Unió at the head of the Consell de Formentera resulted in a derisory fine of 1,500 euros for each of the eight owners, a ridiculous amount compared to the costs of dismantling and reassembling the installations .
The refusal to comply led to a complaint from a group of former concessionaires and the Government, which forced the Conselleria del Mar to open an informative dossier. As a result, the technical and legal reports of the officials left no doubt about the seriousness of the breaches: the concession should be expired .
The documentation was transferred to the parties so that they can argue if they consider it appropriate. The next step is the resolution of the Conseller del Mar y del Ciclo del Agua, Juan Manuel Lafuente.
Sa Unió fails, Cordoba moral victory
Unless there is a surprise, the concession will be withdrawn and Formentera will not have beach bars on its beaches this summer, which will be an absolute failure for Sa Unió and a moral victory for Llorenç Córdoba, who bet on leaving the contest deserted, renewing the old concessionaires for a year and calling for a new one.
The consequence will not only be the loss of one of the tourist attractions of Formentera, as evidenced by the fact that the beach bars were widely promoted in one of the latest videos of the Consell de Formentera. And the fact is that the beach bars provide lifeguard service and are obliged to offer public toilets.
- Historic chiringuito
Bartolomé Escandell managed to renew the concession in extremis and as a result of the fact that the winner of the lot did not present the required documentation .
In a way, Escandell has acted as a loose canon with respect to the other seven concessionaires, who have behaved at all times as a team led by Juanjo Costa, the businessman behind the beach bar that installed the pipes under the dunes without permission.
For example, he did not sign the application registered by the historic lawyer of Angel Bustos, Francisco Javier Jimenez de Cisneros Cid, old acquaintance of the Port Authority as his complaint triggered the case ports, among others, in which he requested not to dismantle on the grounds that the specification requires to be open all year, inconsistency that would have served to reverse the contest. Nor did he participate in the meeting in which Angel Bustos, owner of two beach bars in es Pujols, proposed a reduction of the canon.
It did join the insubordination of the chiringuitos and did not dismantle the installation last year, something it did not want to repeat this year.
