Desokupa has reported that in Bizkaia they will intervene again shortly after a eviction took place in Abadiño. The head of the company, Daniel Esteve, has announced in the Desokupa TV programme that next week they will intervene in Bilbao between applause and laughter. In the same message, he thanked the work of the Ertzaintza in this field.

The last intervention by Desokupa in the Basque Country has generated controversy, especially as regards the relationship of the Ertzaintza with them. With the still calm atmosphere, the communiqué of the new intervention intended to be carried out in Bilbao has arrived.

On April 15, Desokupa appeared in Abadiño, as the homeowner hired him to evict a home. The Gazte Asanblada de Abadiño reported that the eviction was carried out "violently" and "without a court order". The Ertzaintza also stayed in place, pitching over the crowded people at the gates of the building. Once the eviction was executed, Esteve, a member of Desokupa, showed the Ertzaintza her thanks in a video recorded in the same house that he had just evicted, “for giving a little protection close”.

Desokupa ‘thanks’ to the Ertzaintza for its ‘support’ to a group of ‘kale borroka’ which had to be prevented from eviction from Abadiño. Let's see how the Ertzaintza explains, and the security department is collaborating with this Nazi group. pic.twitter.com/1xSp5T845h

— Igor Goikolea (@goikoleaigor) April 15, 2021

Faced with the bustle generated by the relationship between the Ertzaintza and Vacancy, on Friday the Security Advisor, Josu Erkoreka, stated in the Parliament that the Ertzaintza has had “no contact, neither before, during, nor after eviction” with Desokupa. However, a video released on Monday by Descupación belies these statements, as it collects a conversation between a member of Desokupa and a Ertzaintza patrol, in which information about police intervention is exchanged.

‘The Ertzaintza, with the company Desokupa, had no relationship either before, during or after the eviction of Abadiño’, Josu Erkoreka, Security Advisor (30-04-2021).

More images confirm the collaboration between the Basque Autonomic Police and this Nazis group. pic.twitter.com/1Z6y7xcSJM

— Igor Goikolea (@goikoleaigor) May 3, 2021

Company related to the extreme right

Desokupa is a company dedicated to the manufacture of extrajudicial evictions, acting with coercion and within the limits of legality, and the link of its members with the extreme right is known. Although the company is based in Barcelona, they offer services throughout the Spanish State. “We are a company specializing in evictions of illegally occupied dwellings or with precarious tenants. Creators and pioneers of the legal formula of immediate evictions,” they say on their website. Violence has been manifested on many occasions; in 2018, for example, in Catalonia, a woman reported having been aborted when she was evicted.