El Kubo and La Ruïna are two hot potatoes in the upper part of Barcelona that Sareb wants to sell as soon as possible. At this time, the Asset Management Company from Banking Restructuring owns approximately 60% of these buildings vacated on Thursday. The rest belongs, more or less equally, to a family and a limited company.
This family, who lives abroad, has already expressed its desire to join any sales operation ordered by Sareb. The intentions of the third owner have not yet been revealed, but everything points to the fact that it would not be too difficult.
A few workers started yesterday to board up the windows and shield all access to the two estates in the Sant Gervasi-Bonanova neighborhood, so the Mossos d'Esquadra officers finished evicting them on Thursday morning. In addition, private security guards will ensure that they are not usurped again.
Sources from the Sareb state that the security measures are very expensive and that the intention is to get rid of real estate assets very soon. Kubo and Ruina only gave them trouble for years. In addition, Sareb itself has an expiration date of 2027, so it accelerates these operations.
Anyway, the situations of El Kubo and La Ruina are very different. The Ruina, the white building, is classified as a home and, after considerable renovation, could be converted into a single-family residence of 290 square meters.
El Kubo's situation is more complex, and the truth is that the sale is too. The office building is affected by a modification of the Metropolitan General Plan. One day it will be expropriated and demolished to make way for a green area. Barcelona City Council has already started the relevant procedures on a bordering plot, but Sareb has no further news.
Yes, news has arrived from the courts about the seven young people arrested after the eviction. The magistrate decreed provisional release for all, who availed themselves of the right not to testify. They were all spread out inside the two buildings and took charge of the resistance to the police operation, which took five hours to reach the two houses.
The eviction operation began at six in the morning and the policemen of the mobile brigade were the ones who led the initiative at all hours. And not only at the doors of the two buildings. The weeks before, at the device, someone had the initiative to manufacture a similar device that two decades ago was already used by the National Police riot police for the eviction of the Princesa cinema. And, in this way, the famous cage was born. A baluerna that is nothing more than a cart from the warehouses of a supermarket where the partner of one of the cops works, which they turned upside down and on which they placed some wheels, also of a shopping cart.
They placed some plates on the top to reinforce it and achieved the goal of getting close to the doors of La Ruina to demolish the external armoring of the buildings with ram and radial. The fact that no one was injured during the eviction proves that the homemade ingenuity had the result they were hoping for.
