Sheila Cl, a single mother of three children who on July 8 was periodically returns to the block of Carmen LaForet Avenue, in Torrejón de Ardoz, in which she lived so far. His door, he counts, is no longer. It is replaced by a security that leaves a slit that allows it to see its furniture. Her life is still inside since she was thrown from a house in which she has resided nine years, and the one that came from the hand of her ex -partner, which in turn entered her because her previous partner was the winner. The door that separates Sheila from her belongings is no exception. In this promotion there are 151 homes. Of these, and 17 are closed with security measures aimed at avoiding illegal entries. Here members of the Band of the Trinitarians nest. Also abound the conflicts between neighbors. And drug retail. It is, as described by those who move there every day ,.
“The Community of Madrid surprisingly evicts families with minors and allows the existence of occupied narco -plays that does not report,” says Javier Castillo, spokesman of the PSOE in Torrejón de Ardoz, a municipality of 140,000 inhabitants to the east of Madrid that now stars a new encounter between the regional and national government following Sheila’s eviction. “These few criminals hinder the life of the rest,” he adds on the 121 floors in which awardees that (AVS) do reside. “The abandonment of the Community of Madrid through AVS, which is the one who manages those homes, makes everything difficult to the extreme,” he adds. “The common elements are in bad conditions, with portals with broken crystals, dirt and especially broken access doors so that anyone can buy drugs at any time of day and night,” he describes. And he adds: “These criminals have burned cars in the garage, have threatened and assaulted neighbors, they are very few but act within the security given to do so on a private farm in the face of the impasivity of the owner.”
That is the nuclear part of the pulse. The Community of Madrid points to the Government Delegation as responsible for Security.
“The problem existing in the aforementioned promotion is derived, to a large extent, from the lack of citizen security, a matter that is the responsibility of the State Security Forces and Bodies, under the coordination of that Government Delegation,” reproached him for the regional head of Housing, Jorge Rodrigo, to the delegate Francisco Martín, in a letter dated July 9 to which the country accessed. “The eradication of criminal activities in the environment of the aforementioned promotion exceeds the competences of the Social Housing Agency.”
Maybe that’s why this Tuesday the neighbors of the promotion pass on tiptoe on the case of Sheila, or refuse to give information “not to look for problems.” A woman who comes out of the goal specifies on the other side of the fence on behalf of all the neighbors: “We neither know her, nor do we care.” They have, other problems.
Several of the neighbors believe that this is a conflicting building. Margarita, a neighbor of the farm since these social homes were delivered to the first beneficiaries in December 2009, says that she has survived 16 years there “diverting the look.”
She, who emigrated to Spain since her native Poland in 1999, had been living in the center of Torrejón de Ardoz for several years when she got a social floor given her low income. Today, with 54 years, it survives as you can, with the works that are going to step and that sometimes do not even pay your rent at a reduced price.
Margarita says that when a month she has had problems paying the floor, the AVS does not take her out of her house, but accumulates the debt until she has solvency, and thus has managed to pass several seasons without work. “That would not happen with a mortgage, although I could not pay it either,” he acknowledges. “Right now I have a debt that I am going out with a few hours that I do in a cleaning work. For all that I do not leave here, whatever happens.”
Margarita ensures that the coexistence in the neighborhood community has deteriorated over the years, although she clarifies that the worst time is not being lived because they have already taken several of the conflicting from the building. Like trinitarians.
Several neighbors interviewed by this newspaper refer to people who occupied the floors that were empty, and that these were the same that caused altercations in coexistence. Margarita states that on the floor under his lived “members of a Latin band”, who came to steal the water from the floor.
Cultural differences
“Another neighbor threw eggs at the door and on one occasion they broke a window, but I never called the police because I knew they would do nothing,” he continues. “But I kept going from everything as if nothing. The other neighbors asked me how I could, but what I say is that I can’t live in fear.”
The neighbors who enter and leave the number 14 of Carmen LaForet Avenue show that several nationalities coexist in the community, so some usually point out cultural differences as one of the causes of shocks. Alex, a 23 -year -old neighbor who goes down to walk with his dog, says he has felt insecure both in the building and in the neighborhood because of “the drug” and “Latin bands.”
In his case, when asked how insecurity manifested in the neighborhood, he points out that “drugs care less”, and that, in reality, the worst thing is that he felt “in another country because there were people listening to Cumbia everywhere.” Although he, who arrived 15 years ago with his mother to this building, says he is afraid to park the car in the garage and make it “a barbecue”, although he does not have evidence that this has happened before. Now that his mother died and he stayed alone, he says that his dream is to leave there “to a town where there are no people.”
For another neighbor of Moroccan origin, who preferred not to say his name, the problem is that those who live today are not the same families as at the beginning. He moved, also in 2009, with his wife to a three -bedroom floor and several of his four children were born here. “New people have been arriving at each floor, than if a cousin, than another relative,” he says. And as they are no longer families, he says, because coexistence deteriorates.
“They make parties, put high music, mistreat the facilities, open holes on the walls of Pladur,” he explains. “Everyone is responsible for their floor, but those people are the ones who have damaged the building.” That is why the stranger neighbor that new and modern farm that gave the new tenants 16 years ago.
Margarita confirms that it has not only been the coexistence that has deteriorated, but also the structures of the building. He says that the walls of his house are unfortunate and have cracks. “You already know what social homes are in Madrid,” he concludes. Other neighbors add that “the workers” – in reference to those who attend by the AVS – have worried in recent times for repairing some damage and for cleaning the common areas, in addition to forceing those who were disturbing the community.
Sheila, evicted on July 8, and attended by the social services of the municipality, according to the Community of Madrid, returns this Tuesday to what was her home. The neighborhood conflicts do the same. He says he gets along with everyone. And therefore, planted at the door, dreams of returning.
