The affected, who is a tenant who stopped paying, has the eviction suspended until June by court decision | She denounces that 5 men approached her and forced her to sign a paper under duress
Two weeks ago, five strangers entered Marlo’s house and began recording it with their cell phones. They took out a piece of paper, put it on the table, and forced him to sign it. “I promise to leave the house occupied by me at the following address,” the document reads. That day, hethe workers of the squatting company They warned her that she had 14 days to leave, that if she didn’t, they would come for her and throw her out. And so it has been, according to Marlo’s complaint. This woman opened the door by mistaking them for police officers because of her clothing. Although she has reported it to the police station, the men showed up today.
They have arrived at 12 in the morning and have not left until 20 hours. For eight hours they have been harassing Marlo to leave the house. “They have cut off my water and electricity twice, they have tried to break down the door with blows, and at one point they have told me ‘either you come out now or tonight we will kick you out“, denounces the affected.
Marlo is not a squatter, she is a delinquent tenant. He has a 65% disability due to a bone disease, but he has always refused to be given disability. She is a translator, knows five languages and has lived and worked in Spain for 23 years. “Until now I didn’t know where the social services were,” he explains.
But his condition worsened a year ago and he fell ill. He lost his job and in mid-2022 he was unable to pay his rent. Right now he needs regular blood transfusions and a stove to keep his bones warm for his osteonecrosis. In addition, she has Josep, a hired person who helps her take care of her. “Today the electricity has been cut off twice, and that for her is fatal because she needs a stove that will keep her warm in the bones,” explains the lawyer from the Office for the Right to Housing in Valencia (ovdi) who handles the case.
Her landlady initiated eviction proceedings against her, but the court of first instance number 29 of Valencia suspended it until the month of June, extendable to December, according to the car that you have been able to consult lift-EMV, de Prensa Ibérica, by accepting the government’s social shield.
That is to say, that a judge has ruled that Marlo stays, at least, until June at home. And he stays because it has been proven that he has nowhere to go and they are looking for an alternative. “But my landlady did not like the sentence at all and she has paid a company to come and kick me out illegally, today I had an anxiety attack,” she recounts.
The company that appears in the document that this newspaper has been able to access has fiscal headquarters in Madrid and a telephone number that “does not exist” when trying to contact them in this way.
?Finally, we advise that he vacate se’n vaja.
Thanks to the rain and the mobilization, a family will continue to go home.
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neighborhood union pressure
“When Marlo came we explained who these people were, we pointed out that they are outside the law and we prepared her for today. We told him not to open the door under any circumstances.“, explains the lawyer of the city council.
That is what he has done. Then he has called the local police. “They went up and told me that they couldn’t do anything, that I had stopped paying and I had to go,” complaint. He explains that he has told them that there is a court order that says that he has the right to stay in the house until July, but not even with that has the police evicted the vacating company. “The police told me to leave, otherwise it would be worse,” she says. He has also called the Municipal Police and the same operation has happened. La Nacional, on the other hand, has accompanied the company to the edge of the portal, but they were still there.
Around 3:00 p.m. activists from the Valencia Housing Union and the Orriols Neighborhood Union to avoid eviction. As dozens of people gathered, the company decided to leave around 8:00 p.m., explaining that they would try the eviction again this Friday, according to an activist from the neighborhood union who was present throughout the afternoon.
Regarding the signed paper, according to Marlo’s complaint, under duress, lawyers specializing in housing rights from the Generalitat Valenciana explain that “That has no legal validity, it is simply a measure to put pressure on the tenants.” An Ovdi lawyer went to the door of Marlo’s house to try to prevent the squatting company from going ahead, even explaining that there is a judicial resolution that says that the affected person should not leave the house until June.
Second complaint
Marlo He has already denounced the five people who entered his house two weeks ago. This morning he has gone to the courts to file a complaint again, and explains that “in court they have told me that they already have several open cases in Valencia.”
Marlo highlights the shapes of the five people, all fairly stocky men, behind the door. “They told me that they wanted to talk and find a solution, but it is clear that five men like this do not come to parley,” she denounces.
Marlo declares “guilty of being ill” and criticizes that he had never had to ask for any social assistance before. But “the first time I fall I have to live this,” she laments. He explains that she plans to recover and continue working soon. Now she herself receives a pension that she does not give her to rent anything in Valencia, but she does not want to live on subsidies, “I like to work, I want to feel useful“, he claims.