The first inspection has revealed “three different sources” of the fire, which is suspected to be intentional.
A fire, according to the first investigations of the Civil Guard intentional, forced the early hours of this Wednesday to evict more than 15 families (about 70 people) living in a squatted building Located at 13 Calle Real in the Madrid municipality of Collado Villalba.
Nine people, including a baby, were treated by toilets from the Madrid Emergency Medical Service (Summa 112) due to minor smoke inhalation poisoning, of which four were transferred to the Puerta de Hierro hospital in Majadahonda, and three to the Collado Villalba hospital.
The other two affected neighbors were discharged at the scene, reported Emergencies 112.
The agents of the Judicial Police of the armed institute They have located in a first visual inspection of the property “three different sources”a spokeswoman for the Madrid Civil Guard Command has told EFE.
The same source has added that “samples have been collected that will determine the existence of accelerators”, although the investigation is still open, although the “most plausible” hypothesis is that it is an arson attack.
The fire broke out shortly before dawn, around half past seven in the morning.
Six fire crews from the Community of Madrid and several units of the Summa 112 intervened in the incident.
Firefighters had to rescue several people. who were inside the apartments of the building.
A neighbor assured in statements to Telemadrid collected by EFE that the fire had “several sources”.
The United for Collado Villalba party (Podemos, Izquierda Unida and Cambiemos Villalba) maintains in a statement that the fire has been “provoked” and recalls that this property, abandoned and owned by Sareb, it is occupied by more than 15 families in a situation of extreme vulnerability.
This situation of vulnerability, according to Unidas por Collado Villalba, “has been aggravated by comments at institutional headquarters by the right-wing and extreme right-wing government of Collado Villalba, which have fostered an aporophobic breeding ground”.
For this reason, it calls on the municipal government to act “immediately and offer a housing solution to these familiesnot for charity, but for social justice”.