The National Police have arrested two young Spaniards aged 26 and 29 for Orihuela for An alleged crime of coercion to their tenants, who occupied a home in the so -called “Panthera Pink”.
As this newspaper, an Algerian and his mother, who receives an oncological treatment, has known, who receives an oncological treatment, They were renting since February a right to bathroom and kitchen for 500 euros per month. Until now, they had paid 300 euros of bail and two monthly payments.
The man denounced that he was receiving from the owners pressures with “little orthodox” methods to pay the pending monthly payments. First, they required the payment accompanied by people of Romanian nationality.
A few days later, the man, who does not know Spanish, went to a real estate with a friend to do as an interpreter and be able to explain the reasons for his delay in the payment before the owners of the property, which is located In the surroundings of the Miguel Hernández Museum House.
The answer was hostile, he denounced, to the point that he was encouraged to leave the premises, while a car brought in his way. Two corpulent men got out of the vehicle and told him to pay the rent or take him out to him and his mother as necessary.
Only a day later, last day 8, when they returned from work, the two detainees were waiting for him at home, which They held him by the neck with the Mataleón techniquecausing him Mild lesions with erosions and bruises On the back, abdomen, arm and side.
In addition, he informed the National Police that They asked a thousand euros for registering him and his mother (500 euros for each).
The victim contributed photos that the owners had on their social networkswhich facilitated that the troops quickly identify them and proceed to their arrest for a crime of coercion. The agents went to the domicile of the arrested on the 11th. When they were not, they left a summons, proceeding to their detention at the police station on Wednesday.
Young people, with a history of other different events, were made available to the Guard Court.
This is two of the three brothers who call themselves “The Marcos Brothers”, which, which, con More than 6,500 followers on Instagramare presented as “three brothers creating a room empire”, with 14 homes in property and 114 rooms for rent in four years. Thus, they sell their success formula in social networks: “If you want to learn to invest in real estate and get greater profitability by renting for rooms, listen to us.”
They also offer curious tips to collect rentaldistinguishing between two forms: that of “education and empathy, and three years later it may be charged” and going “directly to the grain, without repeating, and charging before the notification of the bank.” The one accompanies her with an emoticon with a balance (justice) and the other with a boxing glove. “Some prefer the Zen Method, and others the flower of the flow,” they indicate.
Both the urban planning and social welfare area accumulate multiple complaints. The homes were released in Orihuela as the “Panthera Pink”, because during the last year a company had reformed several houses in the historic center, painting its facades of a striking pink and its elements of chillón yellow hardwarethe corporate colors of the mercantile.
Urban infraction
The City Council then opened Eight files of restoration of legality and urban infraction Given what was causing discomfort among neighbors and citizens in general, who wondered stunned on social networks how it was possible for the session to allow the facades of these homes, Some with more than 100 years oldthey will be painted with colors so strident that They sponsors with the properties next to themassuming at least a significant change In the environment of the Historic Center.
In fact, they are close to protected elements of San Juan Street, the College of Santo Domingo and the Miguel Hernández Museum House, all within the Special Plan for the Management and Protection of the Historic District of Orihuela (Peopcho), which was approved in 1994.
Thus, Councilor Milagros Lacárcel, of the PSOE, asked the area of urban planning and heritage, directed by Matías Ruiz (PP), about the processing of the necessary licenses For the reforms, and the mayor revealed that they had responsible statements that in many of them did not correspond to the work executed.
Social problem
But beyond that, Ruiz pointed out, there is a major problem: “The most important thing is not the problem of painting, but it is bigger and that has long in coordination with the councils for Social Welfare and Citizen Security And with other administrations we are trying to solve “, a point where the PSOE also emphasized, since once the reforms have been completed, the company offers the rental of rooms to families and vulnerable people They must have minimal guarantees.
Then, the mercantile changed the tone of the facades, but the criticisms went from the urban infraction to complaints. Let's change alerted an alleged residential exploitation network that “violates the dignity of the most vulnerable people” and “a possible abuse related to registration processes.” Thus, the formation presented to the Department of Urbanism a formal complaint for multiple urban and habitability infractions that would affect at least 18 properties of the historic center, whose management is responsible for the trademark “The Marcos Brothers”.
According to the municipal group, these homes would have been, allegedly, Reformed without licensewith the objective of multiply the number of rooms available to allocate room rental, eliminating common spaces such as kitchens or halls and getting to host Up to 30 people on surfaces of just over 100 square meters. Many of these people are in a situation of special vulnerabilitywhich, in the opinion of Cambiemos, “is being used to profit offering unworthy conditions of accommodation,” he said at the time.
In addition, the training warned that several of these properties could be found in situation of ruinwithout having passed the mandatory technical inspections, which means “A serious risk to the integrity of its residents, the adjacent farms and the urban environment as a whole“.
Likewise, a possible abuse related to regulating processes. According to various testimonies, the landlords would have demanded payment of 300 euros to deliver a rental contract that would allow to register in Orihuela. This practice could constitute a alleged scam crimeby conditioning a basic right such as regulating, essential to access public services such as health, education or social aid, to the improper payment of an amount of money.
“It is not just an urban issue, but A residential exploitation network that violates the dignity of the most vulnerable people in our city, “Cambiemos concluded.
After the arrests, Enrique Montero, from Cambiemos, has stated that “unfortunately” he is not surprised at his municipal group, which has been denouncing situations that touched illegalitysuch as the registration and the questionable habitability in these homes, something that is now being found with this police action.
He even recalled that This mercantile has boiled in its social networks to use certain methodslike those of unemployment companies, to collect the defaults.
Now, he has insisted, “The City Council must step forward and take action on the matter”because there are already too many facts that verify the difficult situation that those who live in these homes are going through.
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