In the province of Buenos Aires, some 4,300 hectares of public and private lands were usurped by people who don't have where to live.
That area corresponds to 43 square kilometers of extension.
Land occupation grows during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina
In the province of Buenos Aires, some 4,300 hectares of public and private lands were usurped by people who don't have where to live.
That area corresponds to 43 square kilometers of extension.
The data correspond to open cases, some already resolved and others in progress, and to the daily reports prepared by the Buenos Aires Police, every time they intervene by judicial provision or by acts of flagrante delicto, that means, they arrive when it occurs the criminal act.
According to the data, of the archives of the Ministry of Security -from last July to August 1-, 71 judicialized usurpations were registered and 258 people apprehended.
However, the police have registered that 315 police interventions were registered in the same period.
Many of the seizures that are made of public lands are not reported.
These events are usually resolved peacefully.
The usurpers usually end up keeping part of the land that they took or settle on others donated by the municipality.
Since the beginning of the year, the numbers are worse.
1,801 judicial complaints about usurpations have already been made.
The police carried out 868 procedures and 524 people were apprehended.
The massive seizures of properties in the Buenos Aires suburbs are not new, it has happened for years, but with the preventive isolation and quarantine as a result of the new coronavirus pandemic, it worsened.
"There is a wave of land seizures that is going to deepen because people don't want to continue living overcrowded with the coronavirus around", said social leader Juan Grabois a few weeks ago, anticipating the problem, and clarifying that the illegal occupation of land is not only produced in the Buenos Aires suburbs but also other parts of the country.
This Wednesday at 10 am the eviction of the 'Guernica lands' is going to begin, the largest of the captures, with 500 police officers, as it transcended.
After two intense days of negotiations and meetings, Judge Martín Rizzo signed a resolution Tuesday afternoon that sets a new date for the eviction.
It was after being requested by the Buenos Aires government, the lawyers representing those who are on the property and human rights organizations.
The operation scheduled for September 23, 24, and 25 passed to October 1.
These ten days will be "crucial" to achieve "peaceful unemployment", according to the government of the province.