Overwhelmed and slaughtered, Eva was running around yesterday afternoon from one room of her house to another with a suitcase in her hand.

"I do not fit everything," he

commented through tears. Both his family and the rest of the residents of Rafael Alberti (1 and 3) and La presa (4) streets, in San Fernando de Henares, received an eviction order yesterday within a maximum period of 24 hours. "They ask you to

take 30 years of your life in one day

... it's impossible. The first thing I picked up was the family album, but then you have to choose well what to take with you, leaving many things here that you may not return to. see if the building collapses ... ", Eva lamented.

Throughout the day yesterday this enclave experienced a constant rattle of people entering and leaving its portals

carrying everything from suitcases to boxes full of

personal

items

, as well as animals or bulky music equipment. "You can't live like this. We take the basics, I leave here two televisions, the whole kitchen ...

We don't know when we'll be back

," said one of these residents as he opened the trunk of his car.

It was some water leaks derived from a ventilation shaft of the Line 7 Metro that have deteriorated the structures of these buildings, causing

some blocks to yield up to 20 centimeters.

Something for which the neighbors had been mobilizing for months, although most of them did not have such an immediate outcome.

Hence their faces, which mixed fear, grief and helplessness.

"It is the worst day of my life, a nightmare ... look how I got up," highlighted Juan, Eva's husband, pointing to his left eye, which is visibly purple.

"

I have not given myself any blow, it is from the tension

. I even had a migraine in the middle of the road and I had to stop because I could hardly see, I could not drive," added this family man.

Juan and his son, residents of Calle Rafael Alberti 1, carry suitcases with personal belongings.JAVIER BARBANCHO

He was not the only one.

Another neighbor, in the morning, shouted disconsolately that what was going to become of her and her children, a situation that

gave "goose bumps" to Juan himself

, who also highlighted the story of a tenant who, not being an owner, They did not want to relocate him: "With two children ... At the end we were shouting and it

seems that they are going to accommodate him

."

"I'm going to chain myself in my hair salon"

Although perhaps the greatest bitterness lived in Andrés, a hairdresser who has his premises in Rafael Alberti 1 and who, at the end of this edition, was still waiting on the phone, waiting for good news. "Nobody tells me anything ... I have

not been sleeping well for a year and a half thinking about my daughter and my grandchildren

, who live in these flats ...", he pointed out with a tone that exuded fatigue.

And he made his intentions clear if they did not solve their situation soon: "As long as they don't give me any answer,

I'm going to chain myself in my hairdresser

. Tomorrow [for today] I go to the hardware store and buy big chains and locks. If the police want to get me out they will have to break the door and ... ", he said desperately. And he added: "I only ask for another place where I can continue working because if not

, who is going to pay for my business?

Where am I going to eat? If they don't give it to me, I will lose all my regular customers."

The imminence of the eviction did not catch everyone by surprise.

Some, like Noelia, had already started packing their personal belongings this weekend "because you smelled something."

In total, eight or nine trips with two cars full of bags and suitcases: "The only thing we have left on the floor has been furniture,

the rest of the valuables we have been able to remove,

" pointed out this resident.

According to sources from the Department of Transport, Mobility and Infrastructure of the Community of Madrid, today Thursday

no family will sleep in any of the affected properties.

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