The Danube Delta is not just a natural paradise, but also hell for those who built their homes built on land for which they do not hold the ownership rights.

Right in the heart of the Delta, in the communes of Maliuc, Crişan and Pardina, which are renowned for their picturesque landscape, a few dozens of hectares in the public domain of the state currently have hundreds of privately owned buildings sitting on them.

Even though it seems hard to believe, for over twenty years, the legal issue of the plots of land of the state in the county of Tulcea remained unsolved and is now a source of trouble for the local administration and the inhabitants of the region alike.

How it came to this

The Maliuc, Crişan and Pardina communes were hit by floods in 1970 and 1974.

At the time, the authorities decided the emergency relocation of the flood victims and to build six platforms protected by dams within the administrative perimeter of the communes affected by the floods and in the villages that were part of the communes: Maliuc, Gorgova, Crişan, Mila 23 and Pardina (two platforms).

After being built on higher ground, with earthworks that protected them against future floods, the administration of the platforms went to the Office for the Management of Water Resources of Tulcea.

Since 1980, based on the decisions of the administration of Tulcea, the platforms were divided into plots, which were then given to the locals for the construction of new homes.

Since the inhabitants were in a desperate situation, the operation was a success, with many individuals and legal entities erecting civilian buildings atop the allocated plots.

The people had no way of knowing that they would get in trouble later because at the time there was no legislation regulating the right of ownership of the land (as the platforms were the proper