Nothing is what it seems in the crime of hotel squatting from San Blas, to Madrid. The murder was committed in the first floor hallway of the squatted apartment complex, it was a settling of scores between Colombian immigrants and the victim was one of those who attacked the hotel squatting to kill his rivals. The settling of scores goes badly and the squatters kill one of their attackers, disappearing from the scene before the police arrive.
The reconstruction of events drawn by witnesses began shortly after noon last Sunday. At that time, “a group more ten people “He came into the building screaming, they went up the stairs and started kicking in the apartment doors,” he said. a squatter of those who live in the building located at number 5 Lola Flores Street.
“They broke down the doors of several houses, mine too“But when they saw a Peruvian flag, they said it wasn’t there. It’s clear they were looking for my neighbors,” says another witness. The third time was good, the attackers found the home of their rivals and the fight broke out. During the fight, one of the squatters grabbed a knife and slit the throat of one of the attackers, wounding him several times in the neck.
They threw the body down the stairs
The group of attackers, more than a dozen according to witnesses, stopped in their tracks when they witnessed the murder of one of them. They immediately fled, while the murderers threw the victim’s body down the stairs of the squatted building.
The deceased is a 35-year-old Colombian citizen and the murderers, now missing, are also of Colombian origin. Group V of Homicides of Police Headquartersyou already have their complete description and are trying to find them.
The investigators are clear that they must be held accountable and are seeking to know whether the trigger was the membership of the two groups, squatters and thieves, in the brave bars or ultras of the Colombian football teams América de Cali and Deportivo de Cali whose supporters have already clashed several times in Madrid.
The graffiti of those brave bars They can still be seen on the landing of the apartment where the squatters who murdered one of their rivals lived, even though neighbors say a woman could be behind the argument.
Another woman dies in the same building
After the murder on Sunday, there was another death to be deplored on Monday in the hotel squatting. In the same complex, but after 8:00 p.m., neighbors called the police to alert them of the death of a 25 year old woman by suffocation.
Both the National Police officers who arrived first on the scene and the Samur-Civil Protection officers found the woman in cardiorespiratory arrest and attempted to resuscitate her, without success. The sources in the file assure that the woman He died from carbon monoxide inhalation. The victim lived as a squatter in the block and the origin of the poisoning was found in the breakdown of the diesel generator that he had in the building to provide electricity.
According to emergency sources, the generator was inside a room without ventilation. Under these conditions, if it catches fire, as appears to be the case, the smoke it gives off could cause death.
After evacuating the entire building, the firefighters checked all the rooms and allowed the tenants to return after a few hours to air out the accommodation.
