The Social Samur, dependent on the Madrid City Council, sent homeless and destitute people to the clandestine hostel in Tetuán (Madrid) that

was sealed last Thursday for lacking a license and suffering from a plague of bedbugs

. The agents evicted 72 people that day after the closure of the hotel establishment due to sanitary and administrative deficiencies. Many of the tenants of the Hostal Casa Sofía, located on Padre Rubio street, had their

arms full of bites

and several were assisted by the Samur doctors.

The Consistory acknowledged yesterday that several homeless people were transferred to this hostel in a timely manner during the confinement and storm of Filomena that the region suffered last January, but denied that he was regularly employed by this municipal care department to Social Emergencies. "

There is no written or verbal agreement with the person who manages the hostel,

although it is true that people have been referred there at specific times when circumstances required to expand the number of places as much as possible and in a short time," reiterated the City Council . "And when it was done, the conditions of the establishment were not the ones that led to their eviction," he said.

However, the owner of the hostel first explained to the agents, in order to defend the legality of her premises, that she had an agreement with the Samur Social to house homeless people in the hostel.

He also indicated that at that time

there were none of the tenants brought in that day by the Social Samur.

The Madrid City Council launched the Samur Social in 2004 to intervene in

collective, individual or family social emergencies

;

in social emergencies that cannot be attended by primary care services, and in the care of the homeless.

The local manager, a Chinese citizen, told the Municipal Police that she had reached an agreement with several of the homeless people taken by the Samur Social to charge them

200 euros a month for accommodation.

Until the closure of the hostel, the rates for sleeping in the establishment were 16 euros during the week and 23 euros on weekends.

Among the documentation seized by the Municipal Police it also appears that the

Tham Social Services Association,

which groups the municipalities of Torrelodones, Alpedrete, Hoyo de Manzanares and Moralzarzal, used this service.

From the commonwealth they indicated yesterday that there was no agreement with this hostel to house homeless people there despite the fact that the Municipal Police collected an email in which it was specified that the hostel was going to make an invoice on behalf of these social services.

For several years, the hostel has been operating in Tetouan without a license and was closed after a municipal inspection in 2017. It mainly housed homeless people and beggars from the neighborhood.

Kitchen of the hostel sealed by the Municipal Police.EM

It reopened around 2018 and the owner applied to the City Council for permission as a tourist apartment, which was denied by the Municipal Board according to the Police report. Despite everything, it continued to work and suffered from a plague of bed bugs for at least two years, according to the complaints made by the users of the hostel since 2019, who have also denounced that they

were even victims of robberies in the rooms.

In addition to lacking a municipal license, the hostel, which was advertised on web pages with the claim that it was two kilometers from La Castellana, lacked a registry book, emergency exits.

There were also no safety and hygiene measures against Covid.

It had 12 rooms, eight in the upper part and four in the basement.

They had no ventilation and in some of the rooms there were up to six bunk beds

.

The intervention of the Police took place last Thursday after a complaint made by a client injured by insects, and who felt cheated after booking a room in an establishment that was offered as a stay for an unforgettable vacation in Madrid and

some photographs that did not it had nothing to do with what he later found.

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