In Velilla de San Antonio (Madrid), the Telefónica cables have unleashed a neighborhood fight.

Dolores, an 84-year-old woman, is leading a protest against the installation of Movistar boxes on its façade.

"

This is my house, no one is going to touch it and I am going to defend it to the death,

" says the octogenarian defiantly, pointing to the glob of aerial cords that fly over her partition.

It is supported by other elderly people who are tired of their exterior walls serving for the installation of fiber optics.

They have also placed a banner in the street of Rinconada that makes their intentions clear: No to the squatters of facades.

The cables near Dolores's house have been broken since January 11.

Enrique, his son, assures that they have not broken a single cable.

"After the snowfall the cables fell off" he says.

"We have not cut anything, but we are opposed to their being reinstalled and

we are not going to let these squatters of facades and wall climbers place the cables without permission on the wall

of my mother's house", explains Enrique .

A month has passed and

several blocks in the area are still without internet connection to the

despair of many families who need the network to telecommute or so that university students can follow classes online.

The injured say that several technicians have come to solve the fault, but when they appear at the corner of Dolores, she notifies her neighbors and the Municipal Police.

"When

the agents

arrive

they agree with the residents and prevent the Telefónica operators from placing the stairs

to try to solve the problem," says Sandra Garrido, one of those affected.

She says that the law protects them and that there is an article of the Penal Code that "makes it clear that if there is no burial, the cables must go through the air."

The problem, he adds, is that when "those affected call the police to let the technicians work from the front, the agents say they do not know what to do and agree with Dolores, even though she does not have it."

A Telefónica spokeswoman told EL MUNDO that

the company is in contact with the City Council to seek a solution

.

"We have been several times in Velilla looking at alternatives and we are working on it," they said from the company.

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