Squatters force closure of community pool in Malaga: they invited friends and family

Manilva, an Andalusian municipality in the province of Malaga, has witnessed a major episode of squatting in one of its housing developments, specifically in Royal Manila. According to the neighbors who legally reside there, about 30 of the 90 homes have been squatted, in some cases for about four years. As reported by ‘El Confidencial’, the neighbors indicate the beginning of everything: “The big arrival happened because of the covid pandemic”, and they add that the “call effect” has made the attempts to enter empty houses without authorization Since then, the law has not stopped. Related news Standard No A national police explains how squatters act so that the law does not affect them: “Something is wrong when…” Standard Marina Ortiz No Ildefonso’s nightmare: He suffers two squats in 24 hours. hours and the Civil Guard can do nothing Jorge HerreroIn addition to the insecurity caused by the very fact of having neighbors who live illegally in your own building, in recent days there has been a situation that has been the last straw in this urbanization. The neighbors have a swimming pool at home, closed for a few years for economic reasons and, this year, they decided to invest in it to be able to open it and enjoy it in the summer. But everything went wrong because of the people who squatted the local houses. “The next day, in optimal conditions for swimming, the pool was full of squatters and people who were not from the urbanization to which they had been invited. We have videos in which we see 20 or 30 children from outside, women bathing all dressed, with the niqab,” explain the legal residents according to the media cited above. But the situation worsened: “They broke the security locks of the doors and, when we put chains to close them, they directly tore down the fence to sneak under it,” which meant that after a week, they had to cancel their stay. swimming pool, for which, in addition, they had spent money. “The pool was full of squatters and people who were not from the housing estate that they had invited.” These events pushed the neighbors to turn to the authorities but, at first, they received no attention: “When we saw all the people in the water, we called the local police. They told us they couldn’t come because there was a fire, but they also told us it was a private security issue that they couldn’t get into. And they blamed us for infiltrating because the locks and barriers were broken,” he told ‘El Confidencial’. Some time later, in June, the neighbors also wanted to report the danger that a minor or any person could drown in the water using a closed pool and without rescue service, asking for explanations as to why this was not possible. agents came. About thirty homes were evicted, with a new letter already this August, given the knowledge of violent altercations and an investigation for drug trafficking, added to a possible shootout between squatters and “a clan”, according to the neighbors, the Civil Guard. and The Local Police finally launched an operation that allowed the recovery of some of the squatted houses in Royal Manilva, in response to an order from the Court of Instruction number 1 of Estepona and would have taken place this Wednesday, August 21, when. produced the actions of the agents, also in collaboration with the Armed Institute, Hidralia, Endesa and the City Council. In total, around 30 properties were evacuated from the urbanization, but the intervention is not over. According to sources from the indicated media, the majority of people agreed to voluntarily leave the houses, so the operation was carried out without incident. The only exception was the presence of an aggressive dog and a woman who claimed to live with four minors, a situation that was denied and whose case was forwarded to the social services of the Junta de Andalucía.

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