Cezar Street, blocked for years by the Cârpaci and Stancu clans, has been reclaimed. After Mayor Dominic Fritz signed the demolition order, bulldozers began work on the site on Monday.
The USR administration and Mayor Dominic Fritz are not the first to achieve this kind of thing. In the almost 4 years since he has been in charge of Timisoara, Dominic Fritz has recovered several lands and buildings from the hands of the clans.
Lands and houses taken from Cârpaci
The list of lands and buildings recovered by the USR administration has a special column for the Cârpaci clan. In order not to stray too far from the newly recovered Cezar street, nearby is the new body of the ENT clinic, which could not be built and to which there would have been no access because half of the land was illegal under the Cârpaci clan. From the summer of 2022, the court decided definitively that the land belongs to the municipality. Now the new body of the clinic is almost ready, and the entrance can be accessed without problems.
Also nearby is the famous Loga 52 house, also recovered by the Fritz administration from the hands of the Cârpaci clan. Today, the building and the 1200 square meter land are once again the legal property of the state and under the administration of the town hall.
Furthermore, the apartment in the Elisabetin area, held for years without ownership or rent, also by the Cârpaci clan, returned to state ownership at the end of last year.
What else was recovered?
The Cârpaci and Stancu clans are not the only ones that had to face the USR administration. Another piece of land that should have returned to the Timișoara City Hall’s heritage a long time ago is the parking lot behind the Bega store, illegally occupied by the Cristescu brothers and which from 2022 returned to the city administration through a final decision.
Malul Begăi was also recovered, instead of the Boss Terrace and the Gatsby Social Club, work is now underway on a recreation area for the people of Timisoara. Next to the two terraces, there were also some unlisted constructions, built without a building permit, including the rowing base illegally occupied by businessman Zaher Iskandarani. The sports clubs that operated here were cheated by the Iskandarani and for years operated without a lease.
Miki Boxerul, the Ciută brothers and Zaher Iskandarani illegally occupied the public domain, and now not only have they lost the land, but they also have to pay compensation for the years when their companies operated for free.
Perhaps the most important place recovered by Dominic Fritz is the ZHH beach, which has been illegally occupied since 2014 by the Syrian Hussam Al Hajjar. He occupied the beach since 2004, for a fixed period of 5 years, and then refused to leave on the pretext that he had invested in the beach. The Robu administration could have kicked him out as early as 2014 when he first won the suit for the bar, only that he was supposed to compensate him according to the court’s decision, but he refused, and the bar continued to operate illegally until 2021 when the lawsuit was reopened. After this long series of lawsuits, the Timișoara City Hall not only owns the thermal beach, but is also to be compensated for the period in which it operated without paying anything to the City Hall.
The fight of Dominic Fritz and the USR administration to recover the heritage has been declared since the election campaign of 2020. Every land recovered for the people of Timisoara is a space that can serve the community and that can produce funds that the mayor’s office can reinvest in the city.
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