Ill-fated Spanish village poised to be destroyed a third time

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Settlers who restored abandoned village of Fraguas face prison if they can’t pay €110,000 to demolish it

As well as making and selling beer and jam, installing solar panels and planting courgettes and tomatoes – which have proved irresistible to the local roe deer – the Fraguas resettlers have cleared the area to prevent theover recent years. They also keep an eye on the lily-choked village cemetery, whose graves are still visited by some of those who argue they were unfairly exiled from their village half a century ago.

“Let’s see if you can recover this village’s history once more,” he wrote. “I want to remind you to treat these stones with the love and respect they deserve, even if today they’re dead and lost among brambles and weeds. In another time, they were alive and were part of the story of the people who struggled so hard to live and who went through so many calamities.

“But they refused to do that … [even though] they could have shown the political will to do something and to legalise that situation.” The regional government said mechanisms were in place to help people – including those in Fraguas – resettle in other depopulated rural areas. Exceptions, it added, could not be made.

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