The community is over 30 years old and is located where the state government intends to build an administrative center
Summary
Favela do Moinho faces the removal in the middle of conflicts to give way to a park and the new administrative center of the state government, with families who accept housing proposals and others not.
THE Favela do moinho He began to graduate in the late 1980s, when a factory of feed and flour, who had a mill, was disabled on the scene. Strongly among the railway lines, its central position made life easier for residents for decades. However, the removal of families has completely transformed this reality.
The community acquired notoriety in May of this year, due to conflicts involving residents, military police, federal government – landowner – and the state government, which intends to build a park in the area as part of the future Administrative centerwho will transfer the headquarters of the government to the Campos Elísios district.
With the intensification of the conflicts between residents and military police (PM), an agreement was announced by the city minister, Jader Filho (MDB), to offer accommodation. According to the government of San Paolo, more than 87% of families They joined the proposal to leave the Mulino mill.
Surprising facts in the history of Moinho Favela
THE Favela do moinho He has more than three decades and, from his training, he faces conflicts with public power. The area occupied by the community belonged to two private companies and was auctioned in 1999 for the payment of IPTU debts.
In 2007The Municipal Government has filed a cause to acquire the favela on the ground and remove more than a thousand families who occupy the site (according to the IbgeThe community hosts about 1,827 residents).
The legal battle continued 2008When the Association of Residents, the Office of the State Public Defender and the Model Office of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) presented a request for a collective adverse.
The request has been accepted, allowing families to continue living in Moinho Favela. However, between 2011 and 2012, two big ones fires They destroyed about two thirds of the community, causing deaths and leaving hundreds of homeless people.
Two historical fires and the reversal of the walls
Before the recent actions to remove the residents and the dismantling of traffic, the Favela mill suffered two fires that destroyed hundreds of houses e caused deaths. The wall that made the escape difficult was overturned by the same community and became the subject of a documentary.
In 2011About 1,200 people were homeless from a fire, which also caused two deaths. The following year, in 2012At least one death was recorded and more than 300 people have lost their house. In both cases, the wall surrounding the community has made it difficult to evacuate, as underlined in the report of the firefighters.
This led the community to take a drastic attitude: to overthrow the wall to hammer, alone. The action has become a surprising chapter in the history of the Mulino favela, so much so that, a decade later, in 2023A party was held to remember the reversal.
The invitation stated that, from the reverse of the wall, “we took half the land that was usurped, hundreds of families built their homes, we made a movieclub, deserted and arranged the alleys where our children run and play”.
Source: Terra
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