The problem of ‘squats“In Spain it has been a very complicated year. The increase in the conditions of access to housing has led to more and more cases of illegal entries into apartments that are difficult to understand and leave the owners concerned in a situation of total helplessness and powerlessness. Even if it is reported, it is very difficult to put an end to these cases.
In Leganes (Madrid)For example, a couple has been living in a “squatted” apartment for months. The woman to whom they had legally rented the property stopped paying long ago and so far they have not been able to get the apartment back, even with the help of the courts. Now Lyda Trujillo and her husband Jesús told their story on Cuatro’s show “En boca de todos.”
The couple detailed the despair they suffer, to the point that they are undergoing psychopharmacological treatment for depression and anxiety, and she announced that in a few days her husband will begin a hunger strike.My husband thought about suicide“, he confessed this Tuesday to Nacho Abad.
Four expulsion orders cancelled
The conflict with Mónica, their “inquistress”, goes back a long time, to the point that they took the matter to court. Until in four times The requested eviction orders were canceled, all citing the vulnerability that the tenant, who lives with two minor children, has in her mouth.
“We have two sdecisions in our favor of the Leganés Court and the Provincial Court. The fourth eviction took place on July 17, but it was suspended because they were going to study the vulnerability of the squatter and that is when they facilitated a payroll of 1,500 euros for her work as a librarian at the City Hall,” Lyda laments.
Lyda estimates that the “inquiokupa” owe them more than 16,500 euros and fears that this amount will increase because the conflict seems more than stagnant. It is also difficult for them to understand that, without documents to prove it, the social services protect the inquiokupa in this way and more, while she has a monthly salary of around 1,500 euros and other additional income as a writer.Never met vulnerability requirements“, say those affected.
“We are completely desperate economically and psychologically. We are living in terrible times, day and night I think about this injustice“, she explains. The current resolution states that the case will not resume until December 31. “We are worse than ever. That is why my husband is desperate and this has led him to start a hunger strike,” she explains. So, the plan is for him to be at the entrance of the house and for her to accompany him day and night, but without continuing the hunger strike.
“The anger and despair are very great when you face such great injustice and you see that the law does not protect you,” complains Lyda, who adds, “in addition, you assume certain responsibilities that don’t suit you“, because it would have to come from the administrations.
