The terror passage of Barranquillas: junkies, gypsy clans and the famous bald monkey

• IÑAKI DOMINGUEZ

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Updated Monday, February 21, 2022-02:26

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There have been many drug towns in the history of Madrid, drug sales centers that were transferred from one area of ​​the city to another due to citizen, police and real estate pressure.

Without a doubt, one of the most representative was

, in the Vallecas area, next to Mercamadrid.

If the great market of the city represents a nucleus of food and nutritional supply of the capital, the Barranquillas were for the distribution of illegal substances among interested or needy members of the citizenry.

The high point of the aforementioned slum town was the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s, when it was even said that it was the largest drug market in Europe.

Among other things, the Barranquillas generated a whole transhumance of drug addicts and drug users that found the origin of one of its routes in the Plaza de Embajadores, where many people gathered to take the so-called

: private cars that charged money to consumers. to take them down to the famous town, where the subway did not reach.

The users of the cundas represented the

among the buyers who went to the town, since many others did not have the money to pay for this private means of transport.

Many drug addicts walked down to Barranquillas from the center of the city.

In the words of an anonymous informant: "Sometimes I was walking. It was used to buy drugs, but also to sell stolen things, etc. They closed it, they threw everything away and now there is Valdemingómez, which is even further away."

the clans

The Barranquillas were governed by the clan of the

, who occupied a shack and rented others to various traffickers.

Among these were two Gypsy women known as

.

Each sales group had its own shack, which was like a bunker.

Anonymous informant: «There were shacks, unpaved roads, with people who were in cars giving

[warning that the police were coming].

The shacks where they sell drugs usually have a bonfire at the entrance.

But there you have to know where to go, because if not, they give you shit.

You have to know where you're going...».

Town of Barranquillas, in 1999. PEDRO CARRERO

The writer

, who knows the town well, tells me about its internal structure: "At the time I went to Barranquillas -2004, 2005- there was

, the Niñas and then at the bottom was the Fatties [each in their shack], who ran everything. In fact, they supplied the Girls. Then there was a reckoning between them. For some mess of skirts."

Curiously, Barranquillas had a stand or beach bar where one could buy beers, soft drinks and other food, sometimes even holding outdoor parties with electronic music;

We must take into account that the consumption of cocaine was one of the main attractions of the town, with said drug having stimulating effects.

the bald monkey

The reality of the town was disturbing.

Many consumers talk about the Gordos shack where there was always

tied to the wall by the neck with a dog collar.

In the words of photographer

: "The poor animal jumped and turned around like a man possessed."

Another of my informants tells me about the interior of a shack: "That seemed like the passage of terror. There was a huge queue of big and strong guys, I think most of them were Romanian disco bouncers or something like that. As soon as they entered, a junkie which looked like a monster -he was so crushed-, he closed a steel door. Just like the passage of terror... There was a light bulb that changed color. The junkie looked to see if the police were coming. The light of the light bulb It changed color in case the police arrived. I was a bit scared, to be honest... The queue of the hunks, in which we were now, made an "s" that ended in a kind of bar or table in the one where a gypsy couple was sitting, a muscular gypsy who watched a small television,

Town of Barranquillas, in 1999. PEDRO CARRERO

Then there were the more deteriorated addicts, who lived in the village itself, some of them working as

for the drug-trafficking clans in exchange for a fix.

García-Alix called these

: "They were the people who lived there, next to the bonfires. From the smoke of the bonfires they were all stained with soot. They lived in the bonfires. People went to buy and there were some who They threw themselves there for a week. Many of my friends were living there. They put everything in, they were there to see if they found... Horror of horrors. The horror".

The authorities were interested in the existence of these types of towns because they allowed much of the problems associated with drug addiction to be derived to a specific area, far from the city center.

However, Las Barranquillas was demolished thanks to an urban plan to create a new urbanized neighborhood.

Because of this, and as we have already mentioned, the sale and consumption of drugs at a massive level was transferred to the Cañada Real, in the vicinity of

.

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