Victoria de Castro 'Vitori' at 94 years dried up yesterday with the fingertips tears of infinite sadness after having lost all the memories of his 94 years of life. A bitter end of the nightmare that began last Saturday when he discovered that a family had appropriated his home in Portugalete while she visited a sister in Barakaldo.

Impotent before the inexplicable. 'Vitori' found the support of his nephews, first, and of hundreds of neighbors of Portugalete, later, to get that after three long hours of popular pressure in front of the house, the “squatters” would end up calling Ertzaintza to protect them while they left the house of 'Vitori' after destroying and selling almost all their memories.

"My whole life is in that house," acknowledged 'Vitori' on the afternoon of last Thursday when despair caught his breath a few meters from his house on El Pogreso Street in Portugalete. On the sidewalk and without hope of being able to recover the house until November 20, 'Vitori' felt the encouragement of hundreds of residents of Portugalete who began in the afternoon a concentration of solidarity in the face of the capital injustice of seeing an old woman alone, evicted from his house for a mafia of "squatters" with a background and without the possibility of returning until the trial was held that would allow for a court order to evict the house.

Inside, two elderly women and four minors from a larger clan that, as revealed yesterday by the mayor of Portugalete Mikel Torres (PSE) are dedicated to assault homes that at that time are without their owners to settle there taking advantage of a guarantee legislation that prevents his eviction by the police.

Leaning on his cane, the fragility of 'Vitori' further unnerved the hundreds of neighbors who on Thursday afternoon began shouting “thieves” at the squatters and who threatened to forcefully enter the old woman's house to recover her while that several endowments of the Ertzaintza created a safety cord. Some thirty agents - including Ertzainas and municipal police officers in Portugalete - experienced the paradox of having to protect the illegal "squatters" of the neighbors who reminded the agents of reality. «The criminals are inside, we are the people! », They shouted until, well into the night, the« squatters »yielded and left protected.

After achieving this, the neighbors repeated the pressure in another occupied dwelling and forced the exit of the illegal occupants. Meanwhile, 'Vitori', at the limit of his forces, found that everything had been destroyed and stolen. "They haven't left me a rag," I sobbed yesterday at the door of his house.

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