Zaragonza center: 22 squatted buildings in eight streets

During his report on squatting, ‘Callejeros’ has traveled to Zaragoza to find out what the situation is at the moment. The city center currently has 22 squatted buildings in a total of eight streets. And to this are added more squatted “loose apartments.”

“They are old buildings, no one takes care of them,” several neighbors have told us. The first one they showed us looked calcined from outside: “It caught fire because there was a drug addict who came for drugs, the prostitute who went for it took a long time and spent the money, and the drug addict burned it with a lighter.”

“You can’t live like that. Is it your life or theirs?. They threaten you, they pull your bags, they throw you to the ground…”, they have commented. Little by little they have shown us part of these buildings or how they are hooked to the light with 18 centimeter nails, causing fires. in blocks “with people living inside.”

Having reached one of the buildings, ‘Callejeros’ entered it, but the neighbors preferred to wait outside. Upon entering, the team has found from garbage to blood remains and he knocked on one of the doors, where he found squatters who were only 18 years old. “This apartment is squatted, you don’t pay anything. I’m here because I don’t talk to anyone in my family, if my mother sees it, damn my mother,” said one of them.

Continuing the route, ‘Callejeros’ has reached another building: “They are squatters and they sell drugs 24 hours a day.” It is a drug building in which They sell both alcohol and drugs at any time: “You knock on the board and they take the merchandise through the door.” And, as residents say, they are “the neighborhood in the city that supports the most illegal squatting.”