Several neighbors last Thursday morning confronted a clan that wanted to squat a chalet in a residential area of ​​Colmenar de Oreja, a municipality in the southeast of the region with 7,150 people and located 40 kilometers from Madrid. A woman who had left her home to spend a few days with her parents, of legal age, was notified by her neighbors on Zaragoza street, since a family had entered her home. The usurpers threatened the residents with sticks and after moments of tension and shouting there was a serious altercation that ended in a pitched battle between both sides.

There were stones, throws of chairs, blows and sticks and even the car of one of the alleged squatters tried to run over the neighbors. The result of the fight was three minor injuries. The Civil Guard went to the area and avoided the squatting of the house . The City Council has authorized the residents to install barriers to prevent mafias who are looking for housing in the area to squat, according to Telemadrid.

The residents of the Balcón del Tajo and Urtajo housing estates have been enduring wild squats for more than a year in the two residential areas where more than 3,000 people live in single-family villas. Last Wednesday afternoon a family occupied a house. Neighbors called the owner to let her know what had happened. The squatters, however, defiantly took to the streets, according to those present, and refused to leave and confronted the woman saying that the house was already theirs, according to witnesses . "They got very cool, they said that we were racists and that they had children and that we leave them alone," says one of the tenants of the urbanization. "They began to disrespect us and say, with a desire for superiority, that they were already there forever and that we had to put up with it," explained another neighbor.

The squats warned more clans that appeared in the area and tried to run over the concentrates at full speed. The usurpers then went out with sticks to the street and threatened us. " People became very nervous and began to concentrate on the street and they couldn't take it anymore and the fighting started," said this neighbor. As you can see in the video that accompanies this information, one of the cars that tried to run over the neighbors passed again in front of both sides. At that moment one of the neighbors hit him on the glass and the pitched battle broke out with blows, flying chairs and throwing stones.

A few minutes later, the Civil Guard appeared in the area and put peace between both parties. After a meeting with the agents, the squatters were expelled by the Civil Guard when the owner showed that she was the owner of the house. All in all, the atmosphere in the urbanization is still very "hot", according to the neighbors, since the expelled have squatter families living in the area.

As a result of this incident, the Colmenar de Oreja City Council has given residents permission to install a barrier with a license plate control and a security guard to guard access 24 hours a day. "The PP in the previous legislature authorized access control but then the PSOE won the elections and withdrew what the PP approved. Now the PSOE themselves have rectified," says a neighbor who assures that the problem is that the squatters are breaking the coexistence of the urbanizations. "There are more than 30 squatted houses and these people do not respect anything. They do not throw the garbage in the containers, they throw themselves into a party every night and the robberies have increased," denounces another tenant.

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