Chabolista and homeless settlements that are distributed along different points of the periphery of Palma are not a safe enclave. Some of their occupants have raised the alarm by detecting the presence of North African young people, who identify by their accent and language as Algerians, carrying out robberies inside tents and barracks.
They take advantage of the hours in which many of their inhabitants go to work or look for life Collecting scrap, cartons or carafes to appear there and seize everything that is value, without fear of confrontation. Apart from mobile phones, money or technological elements, something that attracts attention is its fixation for clothing.
“A group of them came -in reference to the Algerians -they took our clothes, they put it on and went down the street, walking with her, also cooling us”explain two citizens of Moroccan origin who have been living and working in Mallorca for years, and who have been installed in one of those settlements, where thanks to a solar plate they can capture energy with which to load their devices.
“The Algerians come to steal, but when we call the police, they say they cannot do anything,” they say, ensuring that they do not leave calm to work or buy for fear of returning and seeing how they have been assaulted. “You have to be miserable to steal people who have almost nothing,” they add, claiming that the law is harder “with those who come to Spain to steal. We have worked and we hope they call us to do the season, but we are not thieves or bad people, ”they refer to two synthesocy that they live in the vicinity of Can Valero.
Remember that, In one of those episodes, there were hands and there was violence. «We have to defend ourselves, and those of us who are here close, because they are violent. They are stopped, but in a few hours they are on the street again, ”regrets residents, who fear new assaults but are willing to stand up.
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