by Mrs. Dolores Alcántara carries dead for more than two years. However, the deceased continues to pay the gas, electricity, water and telephone bills for her house in Sant Boi de Llobregat. Some people They took advantage of the elderly woman’s admission to a socio-health center to ‘squat’ the house and, since then, “they live for free,” denounce the deceased’s niece, María Nieves Lamas, and the neighbor DP, who prefers to remain anonymous.
“When Dolores died No organization closed its bank accounts. How is it possible?” they ask. Both women have undertaken, each on her own, a crusade against the illegal residents of the old woman’s home “because they are already It has become a personal issue.”they assure EL PERIÓDICO.
A couple took advantage of the elderly woman’s income in a hospital to ‘squat’ his home
None of them is a beneficiary of the deceased’s will, nor do they expect to obtain any benefit by denouncing this “injustice,” they explain. However, despite the opposition of their families who fear for the safety of both women, they do not give up. “I continue the fight so that this does not happen to anyone else,” says Lamas. “Every time I pass in front of the ‘squatted’ house I think about what I would do if this happened to my mother. I cannot allow it”, DP sentence
A vulnerable old woman
Dolores Alcántara was a Sevillian woman living in Sant Boi de Llobregat. She had been widowed for more than 20 years, and as she grew older she had become increasingly distrustful. His house was his castle and it was difficult for her to leave the keys with a nearby neighbor or her husband’s niece, even though they were the ones who took her to the doctor or accompanied her shopping. With so much suspicion, no one imagined that the family that runs the bar on the corner They would be the ones who would settle illegally in your house.
Dolores had no children and felt a little lonely. “I was always in a hurry and she would stand at the door of her house wanting to talk. She told me: ‘how lucky you are to have two daughters,'” describes neighbor DP, one of the first to raise the alarm when they ‘squatted’ the old woman’s house, taking advantage of her admission to the Prytanis social and health center, when she was still she was alive. “The first to settle in were a young Moroccan couple. “They stayed for four months and they emptied the apartment,” report to the neighbor.
Later, the couple I would sell the keys of housing to a family, also of Moroccan origin, for 1,800 euros. “They were talking about it in his bar. They said that before they paid a rent of 500 euros, and that they had ‘bet on squatting’ because ‘in this life you have to take risks’”, laments DP “We believe that they are a mafia that had everything studied. You have to have very little shame to do it so normally. They have been installed a giant antenna and a huge swimming pool, all paid for by the late Dolores, of course,” he adds.
I couldn’t bury her
“I blame all this on the social worker”says María Nieves Lamas forcefully. The niece reports that, when Dolores was admitted to the Prytanis, the technician prevented Lamas from using the old woman’s keys to pick up. the documentation and other necessities that Dolores might need from her house. “They had my aunt undocumented during her stay in the hospital and in the residence where they took her, in the Pyrenees, until she died. They never consulted me about anything; I had to go to the Social Security headquarters in Barcelona to beg to know where my aunt was. It was horrible,” he describes.
During this time Dolores’ home had already been ‘squatted’ by the first young couple. “My aunt left the house to two nephews; one is dead and we know nothing about the other”, confesses Lamas. “In her will, she asked to be buried next to her husband, in Sant Boi. She had all the papers in order, but they were in the house. I went to ask the ‘squatters’ but “They did not want to give me the documentation of ownership of the niche and finally I had to cremate my aunt.”the Mint.
The niece reports that the social worker did not want to give her the keys to collect personal documentation from Dolores’ house
Searching for the heir
Since the illegal occupation, Dolores’ niece and neighbor have moved heaven and earth to “do justice in the name of the deceased,” they explain. They affirm that they have reported the case to the Mossos d’Esquadra, the Urban Police and the Housing Department of the Sant Boi City Council, and even to Intestate Inheritances of the Generalitat.
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Everything was in vain, until the neighbor DP published a letter in this newspaper “This bothered the council because they immediately called a sergeant from the Urban Guard interested in the case. “They are supposed to be looking for the heir, but we don’t know anything else,” says the neighbor. EL PERIÓDICO has repeatedly contacted the Sant Boi Urban Police, but has not received a response.
For both women, “the system made a serious mistake” when, while the elderly woman was alive, “no judge or Social Services took action on the matter.” “Dolores’ case is a reflection of “How our society treats vulnerable elderly people”DP sentence
