• The PP’s recipe for facilitating access to housing and curbing squatting

This has requested this Wednesday the leader of the Balearic Executive in a message on the social network X, after hearing the news that several people have ‘squatted’ a hotel establishment in Cala Bona, in Mallorca. Prohens has stressed that citizens «have to be able to rest assured that no one will squat their home or business when they are not there» and, in this regard, has assured that the Govern will take action within its powers. «As much as some deny it or even ask forgiveness from criminals, squatting is a crime and private property is defended. Always,» he concluded.

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• How long does it take to evict a squatter in Spain with the new «Anti-squatting Law?

La entrada Prohens calls on the government to unblock the approval of the anti-crowding law se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• Messi goes public with his Ibiza properties, including his unlegalized mansion

Each year, the Foundation chooses 12 terms based on their presence in the media and in social debate in the Spanish-speaking world, and also evaluates their interest from a linguistic point of view: a curious formation, a meaning or a spelling that generates doubts among speakers.

Definition of dana

The voice dana, lexicalized form of the acronym DANA (whose development is isolated depression in high levels), is written entirely with lowercase letters. The Dictionary of the Spanish language, in its latest update, has incorporated the form dana as a common noun written in lower case. It makes the plural with normality: las danas. It is not appropriate to write it with initial capital letter(la Dana). It would also be possible to use the acronym DANA, which will be written entirely with capital letters and will remain invariable in plural in written texts: las DANA (not las DANAS, las DANA’s or las DANAs).

Dana in Ibiza

The effects of the Dana were felt in Ibiza during the early morning of November 13, with heavy rains and strong winds that generated five incidents attended by emergencies. Among the main problems were the fall of a tree in Santa Eulària des Riu and rockslides on the roads EI-200 in Santa Eulària and EI-321 in Sant Carles. Likewise, the arrival of the Dana to the island rekindled the debate among the parliamentary groups on the construction of houses in flood zones, a measure initially promoted by the Balearic PP but which, in the light of the devastating consequences of the phenomenon in Valencia, forced the politicians to rethink the matter and agree on its prohibition.

Definition of inquiokupa

The word inquiokupación, like inquiokupa, is a term formed from the truncation of inquilino, to which the noun okupación is added by composition. The latter in turn derives from okupa, already included in the Dictionary of the Spanish language to refer to the ‘person or movement that advocates the occupation of uninhabited dwellings or premises’. Thus, it is a neologism intended to designate those individuals who, being at first the legal tenants of a dwelling or premises, after a while fail to comply with the agreed payments and refuse to leave the property. If it is decided to use it, it is written all together, just like inquiokupa, and it is not necessary to use any kind of highlighting or quotation marks: inquiokupación.

Inquiokupa in Ibiza

While there are no official figures on how many cases there are in Ibiza, the latest report from the Ministry of the Interior has shown that in the Balearic Islands cases of home squatting have grown in the last decade: from 193 in 2013 they rose to 407 in 2023, an increase that places the region among the most affected by this phenomenon. The boom in squatting reached its peak in 2021, when 509 incidents of trespassing or usurpation of real estate were recorded. Since then, a slight decrease has been observed, with 417 cases in 2022 and 407 in 2023, which generates a faint optimism, although experts warn that it is still early to talk about a change in trend. Recently, La Voz de Ibiza reported a case of inquiokupación in Santa Eulària des Riu, where a woman of Argentine nationality refused to leave a room she had rented to another Argentine woman through a verbal contract. The tenant resorted to an «antiokupa» company that put pressure on the inquiokupa to leave the place.

Definition of touristification

The noun turistification is a well-formed term used to refer both to tourist overcrowding and to its impact on the commercial and social fabric of certain neighborhoods or cities. This noun and the verb turistificar,

which is also commonly used, refer to the impact of mass tourism as well as to the impact on the resident of a place when services, facilities and businesses are oriented and conceived with the tourist in mind rather than the citizen who lives there permanently. In this sense, the alternative «touristization» is also used, although to a lesser extent, which should not be censured and which is also used to indicate, in a more neutral way, that something is becoming more touristy.

Tourism in Ibiza

The Sustainability Report 2023 published in November of this year by the Sustainability Observatory of IbizaPreservation has highlighted the remarkable growth in population, tourism and transport indicators in Ibiza, warning about the impact of this trend on the island’s resources and sustainability. The report points to unprecedented figures in several aspects that shape life in Ibiza and highlights the urgency of responding to a high-impact tourism model. On the demographic front, the report’s data reflect a 13.4% increase in population over the last ten years, reaching an average of 218,384 people in 2023, a figure that reflects the constant pressure on the island’s services and infrastructures. This increase has gone hand in hand with a record-breaking flow of visitors, reaching 3,379,359 international tourists, 10.2 % more than in 2022. In addition, the number of cruise passengers has also grown, with 548,969 passengers disembarking in Ibiza in 2023, far exceeding pre-pandemic figures.

Other words nominated by FundéuRAE

In addition to dana, inquiokupa and turistification, the list of words nominated for word of the year 2024 by FundéuRAE is completed with «gordofobia», «narcolancha», «woke», «alucinación», «fango», «mena», «micropiso», «pellet» and «reduflación».

Fatphobia

Gordophobia, written as a single word and without hyphen, refers to everything related to it, or to those who have this aversion or rejection. It is grammatically valid to use both the adjectives gordófobo and gordofóbico, constructed with the endings -fobo and -fóbico, respectively.

Narcolancha

The compositional element narco- (meaning ‘drug’) appears attached to very diverse voices to express its relation to this type of substances. It is found in narcodollar, narcotráfico or narcoviolencia, and in others of more recent appearance such as narcolancha.

Woke

This anglicism is usually translated as an informal adjective meaning ‘sensitive to injustice’, and in Spanish it is used both positively and negatively in multiple contexts. It is written in italics if pronounced the same as in English (roughly /wóuk/), but can be adapted and written in round and without quotation marks if pronounced as it is written, /wóke/.

Hallucination

Although not a new word, both it and hallucinate have expanded in meaning with the development of artificial intelligences. They are used in the field of technology to refer to the invention of erroneous information by artificial intelligence systems. It is an extension of the sense that these words already had, and it is not necessary to mark them with italics or quotation marks.

Mud

The consequences of the dana in Spain, and the cleanup work that is still going on in many affected places, have multiplied the appearances of the term mud in the Spanish media. Likewise, this noun has been very present in political and social information with its second meaning, ‘vilipendio, degradation’, a case in which it does not need quotation marks or italics.

Mena

The situation of unaccompanied foreign minors, a term that corresponds to the acronym MENA, arriving in a new country has been another of the debates of the year, in which political polarization has given this term a pejorative tinge that dehumanizes children in vulnerable situations. Although as an acronym it is capitalized, its lexicalization as a common noun written in lower case is well established.

Microfloor

Continuing with the question of housing in many countries, another of the most repeated terms has been micropiso, formed by the union of the prefix micro- (meaning ‘very small’) to the noun piso, with the sense of ‘set of rooms that constitute independent housing in a house of various heights’. It is recalled that it is written as a single word, without hyphen or space (not micro-floor or micro-floor).

Pellet

The foreign word pellet is currently used in many contexts. The word pellet has entered the Dictionary of the Spanish Language (DLE) in its latest update, 23.8. This word – which in Spanish could also be adapted as pélet and, depending on the field, have alternatives such as granza or gránulo – was very present, for example, in the media in Spain due to the large spill of small plastic balls that occurred on the beaches of Galicia at the beginning of the year.

Reduflation

The increase in the price of goods and services in recent months has not only resulted in higher prices, but sometimes also in a smaller product at the same price. For this reason, the word reduflation, an acronym formed from reduction and inflation, has been another of the most repeated during 2024. It is written with a single ce (not reduflaction).

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• What is SOMICI, the figure that Messi will use for his mansion and hotel in Ibiza?

La entrada The 3 words that describe Ibiza’s problems and that are FundéuRAE’s candidates for word of the year 2024 se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• Another serious complaint against the woman accused of squatting in Ibiza: «She told me she was going to blow my head off».

Of the evictions recorded, 183 were the result of proceedings related to the Urban Leases Law (LAU), while 31 were derived from foreclosures and 13 were due to other causes. Evictions due to foreclosures are the ones that have grown the most in year-on-year terms, with an increase of 93.8%. Those related to the LAU rose by 16.6%, while evictions for other reasons decreased by 13.3%, according to the Superior Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB). Although the Balearic Islands does not figure among the communities with the highest absolute number of evictions -led by Catalonia, Valencia, Madrid and Andalusia-, the archipelago ranks first in relative terms. In the procedures derived from the LAU, the Balearic Islands has a rate of 14.8 evictions per 100,000 inhabitants, surpassing Catalonia (12.8), the Canary Islands (11.8) and Asturias (10.1). In addition, the community leads the national statistics in verbal possession trials for illegal occupation of dwellings, with a rate of 2.5 per 100,000 inhabitants. In the third quarter of the year, 31 cases of this type were registered in the Balearic Islands, 63.2% more than in the same period of 2023.

Foreclosures and dismissal lawsuits on the rise

During the same period, foreclosures in the Balearic Islands increased by 103.7%, reaching a total of 110. At the same time, claims for dismissal in the Social Courts increased by 14.3%, to a total of 824 cases. However, claims for payment fell by 7.1%, with 574 cases registered, reflecting a slight improvement in this area.

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• The threat of the «squatter»: «The only thing you are going to gain is to be left without a house, I’m going to fuck up your life».

La entrada Balearic Islands recorded 227 evictions in the third quarter, 20.7% more than a year earlier se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The squatter’s threat: «The only thing you’re going to gain is homelessness, I’m going to fuck up your life».

In the recording, to which La Voz de Ibiza had access and which was broadcasted on television a few days ago, the Argentinean woman can be seen in a fit of anger against the tenant, Laura, who was renting the place now in dispute. «Stop touching my things, do you hear?» the black-clad woman is heard saying as she bangs a hammer against some wood and a piece of furniture arranged in a courtyard to which both parties had access. «Stop touching my things and coming to break my things,» the «inqui-okupa» repeats to whoever is recording. «And turn on the water and electricity,» she demands. From the other side there is no answer, although surely there is a minimum gesture of astonishment at such rage. «What are you filming, crazy woman?», the Argentinian woman reproaches her. Seconds later, Mariana continues with the insults:

«Can’t you live without me? You bitch, you wretch. What are you filming? I go to the supermarket for 5 minutes and you break my stuff, you crazy bitch.» https://youtu.be/sbpZA6xry88

La entrada The new video of the woman denounced for squatting in Ibiza: hammering, insults and warnings se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The woman denounced for squatting returned to the house and warns: «I will not leave».

On this occasion, a neighbor of Can Guasch, in the same municipality, has recounted an ordeal that began two years before the pandemic and continues today with trials and accusations in between. La Voz de Ibiza has contacted Laura (that is also the name of the tenant of Es Novells) and she has agreed to tell her experience, which she summarizes crudely: «A piece of shit». Laura locates the beginning of the conflict two years before the Covid-19 pandemic, when «from an agency where we had put the rent of a country house, we rented it to a group of people among whom was Mariana».«I don’t know what happened in that group, but they all left, perhaps because they were not comfortable. But after a while, she approached us saying that she had to leave her place in Jesus and that she had nowhere to go,» he has stated. «We told her that for a week she could keep her things in the storage room outside the house, and she ended up staying 4 years without paying,» Laura has added.

The problems of coexistence began early. «She would send messages to my mother, an old lady, saying that she couldn’t sleep, that the noises bothered her, that the music was too loud. She complained that she was going at 9 o’clock to feed the chickens, but we were working there. She would record us and call the police about everything. She even told me that she was going to blow my head off,» he told this newspaper. According to her account, when the pandemic broke out, Mariana returned to Argentina, her country of origin, but did not vacate the place. «Being denounced, we could not touch any of her things there. She had declared that it was her home, and without a judge’s order we could not remove her,» she said. When they allowed her to return to Spain, Mariana went back to the warehouse.

Trial, eviction and more denunciations

Laura has told La Voz de Ibiza that one day, Mariana decided to leave the place. «She told me ‘I’m leaving, motherfucker’. She left with a bunch of bags. I put the chain on because I thought ‘by taking her things with her, she’s not coming back’, but she called Guardia Civil and we had a quick trial, for which we had to pay 5,040 euros to the State for having closed a door where a person lived,» she has detailed. After the payment, the judge ruled that she was to collect her things escorted by the Guardia Civil, and leave for good. «She grabbed her belongings and left. But as a result of that, she filed two complaints against us,» he said. «He had stabbed our cushions, he has left kilos and kilos of garbage, he was throwing bags with shit and animal prey into the neighbor’s woods. He seems like a normal person until he gets his wires crossed,» Laura described to this media outlet.

Since then, Laura and her family have had to face two accusations in court. The first was for an alleged scratch on her face that, according to Mariana, was caused by a woman during an altercation. This case ended with the acquittal of the family. The second, still pending resolution, is for an alleged robbery in which Mariana claims that she was robbed of money, kitchen utensils, clothes and other personal items. Laura has denied these accusations and assures that all the belongings were removed under the supervision of the Civil Guard when ordered by the judge. According to La Voz de Ibiza, Laura has contacted the other Laura, from the Es Novells 55 case, to «offer her help».

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• The threat of the «squatter»: «The only thing you are going to gain is to be left without a house, I’m going to fuck up your life».

La entrada Another serious complaint against the woman accused of squatting in Ibiza: «She told me she was going to blow my head off». se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

• The squatter’s threat to the tenant: «The only thing you’re going to gain is homelessness, I’m going to fuck up your life».

Last Saturday, staff of the «antiokupa» company APD Security Iberia, hired by the tenant, named Laura and Argentinean nationality, was installed in an annex of the house in order to «exert pressure» and force the departure of Mariana, also Argentinean. According to La Voz de Ibiza, Mariana left the house between Monday and Tuesday morning, but returned in the morning accompanied by two other women. In the photos shown in this article you can see them with their cell phones in hand, probably taking pictures or recording the events.

The denounced woman denies everything: «I am not a squatter».

Mariana has agreed to talk to this media and tell her version of events. «This person rented me the apartment (a room) a few months ago for 550 euros, but in the middle of the summer, it seems that he wanted to ask me for more money. Once he had everything set up, he told me to leave on August 1.» When asked why she believes she was asked to leave, Mariana answered: «Because she got it in her pussy and thought ‘for this I can ask for 1,000 euros’. I have a video with all the conditions that he put me at the time». It should be recalled that the arrangement between the two had been by word of mouth and that, according to the tenant, the landlord was always aware of the situation.

«I’m not a squatter, I was paying until last month when he cut off my electricity. And he has been threatening me that he was going to bring me four thugs, they even slashed the tires on my car,» she has accused.

Mariana also said that she left the house out of «fear» and that for a few days she will stay «at a friend’s house». «I am going to return to the house because it is my home. I am not going to leave and I am going to file complaints for robbery and breaking and entering,» she told this newspaper.

When asked about the state of the shared garden, with garbage bags piled up, rotting food and plastic scattered around the grounds, Mariana replied: «It was shit when I arrived. The garden is hers, if she wants to clean it up. If the garbage was mine, I understand that throwing it on your property is not a crime».

«I only owe the last month’s rent, and my electricity has been cut off for two months. The woman, who is a fourth-rate conventillera and a bitter woman, is threatening and coercing me to leave. But I will return to my house in a few days,» she concluded.

Tenant laments, «He’s come back to continue harassing me.»

On the other side, Laura has ratified her accusations against Mariana: «She has returned to stay and to continue harassing me. She brought two ‘friends’ to feel accompanied, and they threaten me with spreading images of me that are going to make me purple». «This woman is so crazy that she believes her own insanity. Please, let Social Affairs give her a home,» she has demanded in dialogue with this medium. «The law in Spain right now defends scoundrels like her, who go about being victims and vulnerable but live off people like me, who pay taxes and high rent,» Laura, mother of two minor daughters, has recriminated.

• End to eviction: squatter lived surrounded by garbage and watched neighbors with cell phones in the windows

La entrada The woman denounced for squatting returned to the house and warns: «I will not leave». se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

Coexistence became impossible from July onwards. The woman accumulated bags of garbage in the garden, with dozens of plastics and glass bottles (some broken) scattered around the grounds. «With my daughters we couldn’t walk without running into the filth this woman left behind,» Laura has confessed. «As soon as I took courage I made a complaint, but at the local police station they have told me they can’t do anything. I feel that no one is protecting us,» she lamented. She then consulted different lawyers to see what she could do, but they all told her that it was going to «be difficult to get her off your back.»«That’s when I realized that the law in Spain is made to defend these types of people,» he has criticized. With no concrete possibilities of resolving the conflict through legal channels, Laura turned to the company APD Security Iberia, which specializes in evictions of all types of properties. Since last Saturday, two people moved into an annex to the house and exerted pressure (without violence) for the woman to leave the place, which happened in the last few hours.«My daughters were telling me ‘mom, please get this woman off my back’. It ‘s been a long time coming, and only today after 6 months I feel that I am beginning to see a little bit of light. It has been months of anguish and helplessness,» Laura lamented.

La entrada The squatter’s threat to the tenant: «The only thing you will gain is to be homeless, I’m going to fuck up your life, I have nothing to lose». se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

In addition to the disorder, the woman had a homemade camera system to monitor access to the house. To do so, she taped three cell phones to the windows, filming the movements of people passing by outside.

Laura has denounced violent attitudes on the part of the squatter woman, including insults, denunciations and even threats to her daughters. «I have nothing to lose, I only have two suitcases. Shut your mouth and don’t say anything», were the squatter’s words when Laura suggested that she should leave.

A verbal contract that unleashed «hell».

The origin of the relationship between the two women goes back to the work environment, when they met while working in the local markets. Mariana delivered food, and from a frequent and, in principle, cordial and respectful dialogue, she asked her to help her find a place to live and Laura agreed without suspecting the «hell» that awaited her. «It all started because she wanted to register. I explained to her that it is the owner who should be in charge of that, who by the way is aware of everything that is happening,» Laura has explained. «From being a person who seemed nice he started to talk to me badly, in an insolent and disrespectful way. She started to say that she wasn’t going anywhere, that if I touched her she was going to report me, and so it was, every time I confronted her about a problem she called the police and I looked like the crazy one,» she confessed.

La entrada End to eviction: squatter lived surrounded by garbage and watched neighbors with cell phones in the windows se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

Free choice of language

The claim on which Vox has relented is that of a 750,000 euro item to create a Office of Linguistic Freedom.

«We haven’t demanded any extra funds, the linguistic plan will continue. with the resources that they consider necessary from Education. The agreement has been reached to go with the tranquility required to change the linguistic imposition of Catalan,» said Cañadas. For his part, Costa announced that, although there is no specific allocation for the pilot plan of free choice of language, there will be a campaign to promote the choice of language in primary education aimed at parents.

Budget

During his appearance in the regional chamber, Costa highlighted the «powerful investment» that will be made next year in the water cycle and in salary increases for health personnel. «We must take care of those who take care of us,» he insisted. The economic head of the Autonomous Executive referred to the salary freeze for senior officials, who will only receive the increases authorized by the State. The total draft general budget for 2025 amounts to 7,469 million euros and involves cuts in Ibiza and Formentera.

La entrada Vox resigns its linguistic freedom policy and secures the Anti-occupation Office se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.

La entrada Dutch squatter arrested in Sant Antoni se publicó primero en La Voz De Ibiza.