The second session of the municipal commission on protected housing in Les Naus is being held without the presence of the summoned technical experts, effectively emptying the Alicante City Council body of technical content. All technical staff have communicated in writing that they will not attend, leaving the commission without the expected in-person explanations regarding the processing of the investigated development in Playa de San Juan.
This situation repeats the pattern of the first session, held on April 14, when only one of the five summoned officials appeared. The commission can proceed, but it will not have the officials cited to answer questions on various aspects of the file, from license granting to tax management or census-related data. The absence of all technical profiles thus reduces the municipal body's scope to advance in the political and administrative clarification of the case.
Among the five officials who have communicated their absence are the head of the Urban and Environmental Discipline Service, a second technician from the Urban Planning area cited to comment on the license granting file, the head of the Capital Gains Management Department, a technician assigned to the Statistics department, and the municipal architect who was awarded a home in Les Naus. The municipal architect has been summoned to testify as an investigated party on June 5 in court.
“"If no technician wants to come and explain the doubts we have, it's for two reasons: either they don't know how to explain them or they don't want to explain them. Which only increases the doubts."
The commission was established to analyze potential political and administrative responsibilities linked to the protected housing in Les Naus, a development built on municipal land in Playa de San Juan. The controversy erupted when it became known that public officials, technicians, relatives, and individuals linked to the administrative or political sphere were among the beneficiaries.
The judicial process is advancing in parallel, with the judge summoning fifteen individuals as investigated parties and seven witnesses in the case examining alleged irregularities in the housing allocation. Among those cited as investigated parties are a former Urban Planning councilor, a former municipal general director and head of the Contracting Service, local and regional administration officials, a dozen beneficiaries, and the administrator of the cooperative's management company.
