A 73-year-old mother in Motril was evicted from her home by her own two sons. The house had been her home for most of her life.

Loli, who has a pacemaker, was finally evicted from her home in Calle Santiago at seven in the morning on Friday the 25th of April.

The police had arrived that early in the hope of avoiding angry neighbours who were vociferously against the move, but about 30 people had spent the night in front of her house.

Six van loads of riot police where on standby in the municipal courthouse car park, as back up for the dozens of Policía Nacional present, to clear the way for the bailiff and court officials, who obviously did not enjoy their task.

Friends and Stop Desahucios members (anti-eviction movement) had collected 8,200 signatures in support of Loli Dolores Ruiz but to no avail, as Loli and her daughter, María, tearfully collected together what belongings they could – Loli will be moving in with her faithful daughter.

However, “faithful” is probably not an epithet that sits well with her two sons, who reportedly tricked her into signing a rental contract for her own home – allegedly slipping the documents in amongst other paperwork for her to sign. The two sons had formed a company and the company was the landlord on the said rental contract.

The sons’ uncles had tried to reason with them, says María, but they would not relent, claiming that they (or their company) had already sold the house.

Sitting on a bare mattress in her bedroom Loli had simply held out her keys for the court official to take and said, “I leave with dignity,” moving more than a few witnesses to tears.

Loli might have been taking it with resigned dignity but the crowd, restrained by the police, was seething with indignation.

But there was no violence; just immense incomprehension against a judicial system with no justice and sons that can turn a mother out from her home when the first shelter they had ever known in this life was in that same mother’s womb.

Nevertheless, Loli can’t stop being a mother: “I can’t forget this, but I forgive my sons.” Maria, the sister, however, probably never will.

There are always two sides to a story, therefore, The Seaside Gazette invites the said sons to send us their take on the affair and we will publish it in its entirety on this website.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)