On Monday, the National Police arrested seven employees of two building vacancy companies accused of illegal possession of weapons and coercion of tenants of a building in the Madrid district of Tetuán, a spokeswoman for the Madrid Police Headquarters informed Europa Press. .
The events occurred on 62 Azucenas Street. On Monday afternoon several workers from these companies arrived at the scene to evict two squatted apartments, knocking down, according to their residents, the doors without an eviction order and in a violent manner.
After 091 was notified, several agents arrived at the scene and identified everyone present. Finally, seven 'escape' workers were arrested for coercion, illegal possession of weapons and usurpation. The person responsible was arrested for usurpation of public functions, since he identified himself as a police officer by producing a false badge, according to the same sources.
The Police seized three extendable defenses, a pepper spray and a knife. The detainees, between 59 and 24 years old, are Spanish and five of them have criminal records. Many of the squatters, of North African origin, have been living in that property for a decade, the newspaper 'ABC' has detailed.
