The old external new directions in Massamá.
About 40 makeshift rooms designed to lodge “more than 40 people” in the old externato new directions, transformed into poor housing. “Basic sanitation and good environment for children lack.”
More than 40 Immigrants They lived until this Tuesday in an old school in Massamá, in the municipality of Sintra, where they shared kitchen and bathroom. Some even paid 500 euros of Renda In the old school, which does not gather habitability conditions.
The Public Security Police (PSP) made an inspection this morning after receiving several complaints. The building, ended years ago, was transformed into precarious housingwith about 40 Improvised Rooms intended to host “more than 40 people,” PSP coordinating chief Pedro Magrinho told SIC. Already the advance that would be close to 100 immigrants living in the closed school.
“These are numbers that we are still ascertaining that there are household aggregates in which only one of the elements of the aggregate is in place,” said the official, which however guarantees: “several children of tender age and the elderly” live in school.
Virtually all residents will be “Legalized Immigrants” that would pay between 250 and 500 euros a month to live there. They have low wages and cannot meet the legal requirements required by those who rent rooms, complain.
“The space even has no problem, but lack basic sanitation and good environment for children. You are a good person,” said one of the residents, probably referring to the subject who illegally explores the space. “Here they only ask for a lace and a security.”
“The majority [dos senhorios] He no longer accepts children to live in a room, but they accept ”confesses another resident to RTP, who lived there for eight months in exchange for 500 euros:” The others charge more. “
“We are faced with a problem at this time that is realizing that alternatives we have to offer these families at the municipal level, or even national, so that they can leave this kind of accommodation and be housed with some dignity,” says Pedro Magrinho.
This Tuesday were at the scene, in addition to the PSP, the ASAE and the owner of the building and the explorer of the building, who charged the rents of those who now have nowhere to go. Both are Portuguese.
