The video has circulated through whatsapp groups and social networks during the last hours.
Three men, with iron bars in their hands
, try to open the door that gives access to the plot where a house is located.
They don't make it, but they grope for the driveway and it slides allowing them access.
Inside,
two men, a woman and three minors
take a bath in a plastic pool.
The 'assailants' are Víctor, owner of the house, and two friends.
The 'assaulted', squatters who took advantage of the holidays to illegally access and stay in this chalet located in
the Los Angeles urbanization
, in
El Esparragal
, a district of
Murcia
.
Shouting
"Come on, get out of here"
the three men demand that the squatters leave immediately, to which they do not oppose.
In less than five minutes, the six people are out of the housing compound putting their belongings in a car.
"The house is not yours either"
At that moment, the squatters tell the three people who have evicted them that "the house isn't yours either, it belongs to the bank", to which Víctor replies: "Not from the bank, it belongs to this man who is the one who pays the mortgage, and I also have two children and I want to put them here, this week we began to reform it.
This house belonged to the bank until last year, and on September 23 I paid 380,000 euros, which I continue to pay now".
Víctor has intervened this Thursday in Antena 3's 'Espejo Público', where he has assured that the squatters "were not out of necessity, but on vacation, they were not in a social situation that required help.
They were furnishing the house with new things
. They bought the pool and the box was still there because they had just put it in."
In the same space they also had the presence of
Isabel Gambín
, an expert lawyer in squatting issues, who warned that the way in which the eviction was carried out could lead to legal problems for Víctor if the squatters decide to denounce it.
According to Gambín, there could have been
crimes of coercion, damage (for breaking the pool), arbitrary execution of the right and even breaking and entering
.
Víctor, in this case in an interview granted to El Español, admitted that his way of acting
"was not an example to follow
" and said "he did not defend the way in which he recovered" his property but "he was not willing to take on a legal process. vacancy because another person breaks the lock on my house".
"It cannot be that the owner of a home has fewer rights than a squat. That only happens in Spain
. The more time passes, you give more rights to the squatters, and it is more difficult to remove them. I did not know what I was going to find , if there were 8 or 80 people, but what I did know was that I wanted to get my house back because I still have a lot to pay on the mortgage," he said.
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