About a thousand marijuana plants, firearms (short and long), ammunition, bulletproof vests… The Civil Guard found him in three apartment buildings known as “Las Chapas “. It is an apartment complex located on Ministerio Juan José Benayas de Torrijos street, in the Puerta de Maqueda neighborhood, about 300 meters walk from the town hall. “It’s a zone of citizen insecurity,” said a compatriot.
An individual purchased three of the four blocks and obtained legal support for his eviction. “Pressure was put on the squatters to leave,” explain sources consulted by ABC. There have been no arrests yet, although several people have been identified.
Around twenty agents, with the support of the local police of this Toledo municipality of 14,000 inhabitants, entered this Tuesday with a court order to warn and evict residents in an illegal situation. Two buildings are located opposite the other two and separated by a community patio. In three of them, with three floors plus an attic according to each typology, many conflicted people live.
The guards were greeted with insults and thrown objects from the destroyed blocks from the inside and many floors were uninhabitable. “There’s a lot of dirt, it’s unsanitary and it looks like a war scene”describes a person who entered.
“The eviction from these homes was encouraged by the passivity of the banks,” say the sources consulted about certain blocks in which “everything” happened: from stabbings to numerous cases of disturbances to public order , including the confiscation of weapons or the location of stolen vehicles. “As many times as we went there, we were registered there”quips an agent who knows the blocks perfectly. The operation is not yet closed.
