Monday September 30. At 3:15 p.m., room 092 received a notice from a passerby who warned that there was an argument between several people in the middle of Calle de los Ferroviarios, in the Usera neighborhood. Quickly, agents from the General Station of the Usera District of the Municipal Police arrived on site, at number 76.
In fact, a foreign couple was arguing with a Latin American citizen. ABC has learned that the story behind it all is much more striking than it first appears: They were scammed over a tourist rental apartment, which in reality was a Chinese brothel .
On one side, there was a couple, he a 26-year-old Bengali and she a 30-year-old Nepalese woman. As they explained to the agents, they were in Madrid for tourism and were staying at the Lai Hostel. , Argumosa street, 37, in Lavapiés (Center), where they met a Bolivian, Ronny RR, 42 years old. They started a conversation and he told them: “I can find you accommodation cheaper than in this hostel.” “I have a friend who can rent you a better room for a lower price.”
The unsuspecting visiting couple obliged and agreed to meet him at Ferroviarios, 76. The Bolivian asked them for 400 euros for the stay, without the duration being revealed. It is a ground floor with access from the street, a premises converted into a basement rather than a dwelling. Or something worse, as we’ll see later.
“Wait a moment outside, I’ll come in for a moment,” he asked them. The “moment” lasted two hours, according to the complainants, so that around three in the afternoon the man came out in an apparent state of intoxication. And he said to them: “I don’t have your money. I spent it on booze, whores and cocaine. So, out of the blue, he laughed in her face, even though he said it with a surprising calm that only inflamed the young romantic couple.
Another bed in the room, with several condoms on it
The anger of the victims was enormous. They demanded his 400 euros, but the man explained that this was not possible, because he had given everything to the Chinese prostitute he had been with and she had already left. It was when they came to blows that the witness witnessed the scene and called the municipal police.
When the officers arrested him, still in the street, the suspect continued saying the same thing: “I tricked the couple into giving me the 400 euros to spend on prostitution, alcohol consumption and cocaine. He was undocumented and, in his narcotic delirium, declared that he had no home; He then indicated that he lived “at the fair”, but without giving an address.
More condoms and toilet paper, on a shelf, in the red light of a lamp
Since the tourists’ story seemed plausible (in fact, it was the same as that of the accused himself), the municipal police arrested Ronny RR for an alleged crime of fraud. At the same time, businesses operating in the fake tourist apartment will be investigated. At the moment, one of the two beds in the cabin, barely a few meters square, had a handful of condoms on the sheets, quite a few in a basket, and the space was lit with a suspicious light. , a little subdued. red light.
Outside, on the door, next to the entrance to a community garage, a sign in Chinese letters and not translated into Spanish. Unfortunately, these types of dens for sexual exploitation are quite common in Madrid’s neighborhoods.
