• Palma: They set up a marijuana plantation in a squatted apartment owned by Proyecto Hombre

Desokupa, the company formed by former boxers that is responsible for recovering illegally 'squatted' homes, has just carried out an operation on the island of Ibiza.

After entering the interior, the 'desokupadores' discovered that in the basement there was

everything necessary to set up a marijuana plantation

.

Again.

Less than a week ago, the National Police arrested several people in Palma who had set up a plantation of 200 marijuana plants in an occupied apartment, which was also

owned by Proyecto Hombre

, the NGO dedicated to the detoxification and rehabilitation of addicts.

Those arrested produced and sold drugs in the same house, located in the Pedro Garau neighborhood.

It is estimated that the laboratory they had set up to cultivate and process it had a value of

30,000 euros

.

A few months earlier, the smell of marijuana was setting all the homes at number 57 on the Valldemossa road, also in Palma de Mallorca.

An occupied 100-square-meter floor hid a

half-thousand-plant

greenhouse for almost a year

.

A gram of marijuana costs between five and seven euros in the market.

Each plant grown in a home can produce between 50 and 600 grams.

The

narcokupación

has become a lucrative business in the islands and in much of Spain.

The security forces have carried out numerous operations in the last five years that confirm that occupation and cultivation of marijuana often go hand in hand.

The confinement caused by the pandemic would have triggered its price throughout the world, given the difficulties in its cultivation and sale.

And at the same time, home occupation has skyrocketed in Spain.

It has become common for cannabis plantations to be guarded by

squatters

, who

act as human shields with neighbors, but also in the face of raids and inspections by the Police

.

"They try to make one crime difficult with another," say agents used to dealing with these situations.

Sometimes it is the

squatters

themselves

who cultivate the plantation, but others are professional gangs who know and watch unoccupied houses, and take advantage of the gaps to enter there and develop their activity, then giving the house to

squatters

in exchange for surveillance and shielding for their plantations.

Many times they are forced to make significant investments in housing in order to build a greenhouse that optimizes planting.

From lighting and sound systems, to

alarms to prevent the entry of the owners

, or of new

squatters

that usurp the homes of the old ones.

A cannabis association points out that Spain has become the great marijuana nursery in Europe.

While in Spain it is where it can be purchased cheaper, in countries like

Cyprus it is around 40 euros a gram, and in Estonia 25

.

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