Two hundred families were forced to live in an abandoned hotel in Madrid because They have nowhere to go. The Town Hall is looking for a way to evict them because, according to the Police, the place has become a hotbed of drugs and crime. His reasons are not completely unfounded since last week two people died on the propertyone due to inhaling gas from a generator and another during a fight.
A team of journalists from laSexta had the opportunity to access the interior of the hotel and hear the testimonies of some of the people who live there. Upon entering, what they find are corridors without light, lots of exposed wiring and people who, simply because they don’t have papers, have had to resort to squatting. Among them there are not only adults, there are also children and babies that their parents are trying to raise.
This is the case of a woman who has lived there for a week with her teenage daughter and who tells her story: “I lost my job and they threw me out. I was scared, but I had no choice but to come here.because no one rented us.” The testimony is not far from that of Ana Vargas, who showed the room where she lives with her daughters and in which there is a generator like the one that cost a person’s life : ” With We have electricity with this generator and with one like this, a neighbor died the other day, because “He turned on the generator in the room, absorbed all the poison and collapsed due to respiratory arrest.”
Furthermore, last Sunday, another resident of the hotel was killed after a fight. “A large group came throwing stones and “Suddenly I saw the boy bleeding from his throat.”Blonder Walter explained. Reason why agents guard the place day and night. However, the families who live there only demand “that we install the light matrix and repair this track so that the children can play ball or prepare them chocolate,” Vargas explained.
Despite everything, the town hall insists on its expulsion and the former owner assures that the company which managed it entered bankrupt and his situation is legal.
