Xabi Alonso is beginning to feel that there is a campaign of harassment and demolition (of his chalet)

The story goes back a long way, although the fact that its protagonist is now the manager of Real Madrid gives it even greater repercussions. In February of last year, the Third Administrative Court of San Sebastián upheld the appeal filed by several environmental groups against the building permit for Xabi Alonso 's chalet on Mount Igeldo. The associations Ekologistak Martxan and Haritzalde Naturzaleen have returned to the fray with a new complaint.

Naturally, the news was a source of disappointment for the then-coach of Bayer Leverkusen , who previously played for Real Madrid, Liverpool FC , and Real Sociedad , where Xabi began and developed as a player and also as a coach. And precisely because of this, because it's his home, the most painful thing for the Tolosar native was having to read headlines like " Xabi Alonso, persona non grata in his San Sebastián neighborhood."

"If the sentence is final, Xabi Alonso's villa must be demolished , and the only question will be who will pay the two million that it could cost, the Donostia City Council or the developer." This was the emphatic statement by Javier Olaverri , the lawyer for the groups that requested the stoppage of the works and the demolition in November 2022. A lawyer coincidentally known for his efforts, along with Félix Soto , former HB councillor on the Donostia City Council, to prevent Real Madrid from renovating Anoeta.

The aforementioned associations filed a complaint a few days ago with the Gipuzkoa Prosecutor's Office against the San Sebastián City Council and the company Tavaro XXI , responsible for the construction of the aforementioned chalet. They are accused of the crimes of prevarication and usurpation of public property for the use of the access road to the Txalin water reservoir, since "The available authorization, of more than dubious legality, expired on March 21, 2025, and cannot be extended."

His wife, sole administrator of Tavaro XXI

A new headache for Xabi Alonso, pending the High Court of the Basque Country's decision on the appeals filed by the San Sebastián City Council and Tavaro XXI, whose sole administrator is his wife, Nagore Aranburu . In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs insist that the San Sebastián City Council, governed by the PNV and PSE-EE parties, allowed the reconstruction of a replica of an expropriated farmhouse located in the Martutene neighborhood, eight kilometers from its original location, on a plot of land in Igeldo.

According to the complainants, the San Sebastián City Council granted Tavaro XXI a license to build the chalet on "a plot of land that lacks its own access." Therefore, to overcome this situation of road isolation, it granted him "special use of a 300-meter path" that runs from the Txalin water tank to the public road. Access to Xabi Alonso's new home requires crossing a "municipal road" that is not for public use.

In their statement, the environmental associations assert that the Councilor for Urban Maintenance, Carlos García Hernández (PSE-EE), "decided to sign a special use permit for the road in favor of Tavaro XXI." This "temporary" permit is considered irregular, since, as we mentioned, it expired at the end of last March, meaning it is currently "expired." Despite this, they add that the public road "continues to be used as access to the chalet."

And the complainants conclude: "This new change in the rules of the game requested a posteriori by Tavaro and which in all likelihood has already been agreed upon by the municipality , would be the third time that the City Council tries to legalize the most flagrant illegalities committed in this work. " "A behavior that can only be explained by the spurious concordance of interests between the developer and the municipal corporation and never by the defense of general interests," explain the environmentalists, who ask that the councilor for Urban Maintenance, as well as Xabi Alonso's wife , be called to testify .

It should be recalled that in October 2023, the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court confirmed the acquittal of the former footballer and two of his tax advisors of the crime against the Public Treasury for the transfer of the exploitation of his image rights to a company based abroad. The court rejected the appeal filed by the State Attorney's Office on behalf of the Treasury, to which the Public Prosecutor's Office adhered, against the acquittal ruling of the High Court of Justice of Madrid , which in turn upheld the ruling of the Provincial Court of Madrid .

It being evident that The laws are the laws and they must be equally complied with by all , it seems that Xabi Alonso finds himself in the middle of another political dispute. You only have to see who is behind the complaints and the request that the PNV made to EH Bildu and Elkarrekin Donostia to not spread "a toxic cloud of suspicion over this city council. " Of course, given what we've seen, the new Real Madrid coach may begin to feel that there is a campaign of harassment and demolition ... of his chalet.