They denounce new attempts to occupy social housing in the Cáceres neighborhood of Aldea Moret

The social housing of Aldea Moret has suffered new attempts of illegal occupation. The last one occurred on a second floor of Calle Río Vístula 1, one of the buildings most affected by this practice in the neighborhood next to number 8 Calle Río Tiber. Both are municipally owned.

The neighbors themselves came to confront the squatters, dissuading them from accessing the apartments on two occasions, according to what the administrator of the estates, Jorge Martín, told this newspaper, who also criticizes the fact that the City Council has not initiated the judicial procedure that it announced months to evict these people.

One of the episodes that, according to Martín, was carried out by a neighbor who had been occupying one of the Vístula 1 flats for a long time, ended up in court. Apparently this woman threatened to enter an apartment next to hers “saying that they were going to communicate the two houses and that they were going to enter through the living room,” details the administrator. The squat carried out her threat and knocked down the brick partition that protected the door, which forced the National Police to intervene, which referred the proceedings to the court. The case was seen in the month of February and the sentence condemns the woman to leave the flat and an economic sanction. “To this day she continues to live there, the City Council has to request the execution of the sentence,” Martín claims.

The forced entry into these flats and the conflicts with their tenants are generating problems of coexistence that are affecting the neighbors who were officially awarded the flats. “There is a drug sales point and the water failures in two houses have caused humidity. The squatter of one of the lower floors of Vistula 1, who had problems with clogging, before Conyser arrived, went down to the garage with an iron bar to fix it at his expense and has flooded it. The repair has cost us 400 euros, ”says the administrator, who has been in charge of the two communities for eight years.

In June of last year, the mayor, Luis Salaya, and the councilor for Social Affairs, María José Pulido, met with residents of these blocks, in the presence of Martín himself, to seek a solution to the repeated episodes of occupation that they had been suffering. After that meeting, the Consistory promised to initiate the judicial procedure to evict the squatters, without it having been carried out, Martín denounces. «It will be a year that they have been promising it and nothing has been done. We feel cheated, I don’t know what is the reason why they don’t take the evictions to court.

For its part, the City Council blames the workload of its legal office for the delay in opening judicial proceedings and indicates that it has given instructions to process them after their approval by the Governing Board. As he points out, two files are already started and the rest will be launched in the coming months. “We would have liked to go faster but the City Council has a large load of legal proceedings at this time and the senior lawyer left the post shortly after this,” they justify from the Consistory.

It should be remembered that the Popular Party has requested this week more security in Aldea Moret and measures against the occupation. His spokesperson in Cáceres, Rafael Mateos, denounced that his group did not have “not a single piece of information about those alleged legal actions that had been taken against the illegal occupations.”

delivery of keys

The circumstance occurs, adds Martín, that the successful bidder of a Vístula 1 ground floor has decided to hand over the keys to her home due to the repeated problems of coexistence in the block. “He made a reform but he can’t take it anymore, he can’t even take his grandchildren home,” says the administrator, who warns that this apartment may be the next to be accessed illegally if the City Council does not speed up its formal award to another family.

The administrator insists that the current situation is so worrying that they fear that Vistula 1 will end up as the controversial block C of Rhône, boarded up more than a decade ago due to its uninhabitability and waiting to be demolished. “Because of what has been going on here lately, we are not on the wrong track to become the next block C,” says Martín.