The story that the restaurant La Caleta in Sant Vicenç de Montalt is experiencing has three protagonists: Adif, the State Coastal Demarcation (in Barcelona) and the Casado family, who have been serving seafood dishes there since 1955. Since Albert Casado's grandfather, the current generation in charge, opened the restaurant located between the beach and the road, they have paid a semi-annual rent to Adif, who represented that they were the owner of the land. However, without the Casado family knowing, in 2017 the owner of the property passed to the State Coastal Demarcation in Barcelona, an agency that depends on the Ministry of Ecological Transition. And this is where the big mess begins.

Everything has happened very quickly. On Tuesday, May 20, the Sitges Sea Club, a non-profit social club related to sea sports, received an email from the Ministry for Ecological Transition notifying them that their facilities would be demolished on June 2. It was a notification, not a court ruling, and they were not given the opportunity to appeal. However, today, the Supreme Court decided to open a separate suspension proceeding to analyze whether it is necessary to suspend the administration's agreement ordering the demolition of the Sea Club facilities and the Maria Teresa pool. "The email didn't mention that they're relying on a 2003 Supreme Court ruling, which told us they would demolish the Club de Mar, but that was in 2003; so many years later, the ruling has already lapsed," says Gonzalo Fuster-Fabra, former vice president and spokesperson for the Club de Mar de Sitge, regarding the legality or otherwise of the measures adopted by the ministry. In a state of law, only judges should rule on the legality of an administrative decision. Thus, the Supreme Court could suspend the demolition of the building on June 2.