Residents say that there are addicts at all times of the day and night. For the most part, they go unnoticed because the units are mostly all closed and there aren't the numbers of people there once were. The sight of syringes discarded on the ground is common; these syringes carry risk.
This is something of a throwback to the 1980s and 1990s, when heroin was widely available and there were numerous addicts, many of whom would congregate in the Plaça Major area.
Police sources say that heroin has made a comeback, especially among the dealers of the Son Banya shanty town, Mallorca's 'drugs supermarket'. It had been relegated behind other drugs like cocaine, but it is back on the black market, a drug that can have devastating consequences.
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If the Council isn't careful, the shopping area beneath Plaça Major will become home to all Palma's waifs and strays, drug addicts and petty thieves. It's perfect for them being warm and off the streets. Increase security and lock them out otherwise it will snowball and become a huge problem for the future.
That place is absolutely disgusting more decrepit and Dirty is not possible dark and dirty no wonder it has become a great place for the people buying and selling drugs , Dark as well not so easy to figure out what possibly could be done to get it back into some type of functioning useful space , there is security down there sometime´s but they also don't seem to want to be there .
And the plod do nothing but sit in their cars, half-heartedly chasing lucky lucky boys around like cat and mouse...