The woman asked if her partner could move in and do gardening and maintenance work. The couple agreed to this. Two months later, the work stopped. The Spanish couple no longer wanted to do anything and they had no intention of leaving the guest house. They were squatters in the guest house.
Unsurprisingly, relations between the two couples deteriorated. V. says that she is aware that she offered the house to them. "But I never thought that they were violent people with bad intentions. That wasn't how they were at the beginning."
Since May, the owners have been insulted and have been threatened. Things became so bad that they couldn't use the gardens, pool or terrace. In August, a restraining order was requested. This was after they were threatened with a hammer. Medical reports and complaints have been lodged with the Guardia Civil. V. has suffered from anxiety attacks.
The owners have moved into an apartment in Palma, as life at their property in Sencelles has been made impossible. V. adds: "I don't understand what else has to happen for the justice and authorities to protect children and a family." The request for the restraining order has yet to receive a response from the courts in Inca.
"My husband bought this finca 15 years ago when it was almost a ruin. He has done a great deal to develop it but now we have had to leave because of threats."
The police have been called on various occasions, once when the squatters tried to break the security cameras. The mayor of Sencelles, Joan Carles Verd, confirms that the police have gone whenever they have been requested. But he explains: "The town hall, the police, the Guardia Civil can do nothing if a judge doesn't order it. And it can take two or three years for an eviction."
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Give them a choice, move out now or you will disappear of the face of this planet? Simple as that, absolute Scumbags
It's a ridiculous law brought in by a ridiculous government.
I would have thought that a live-in employee refusing to work and threatening violence to you in your own home is rather different from a delinquent tenant or okkupa. Surely this is a criminal matter (the violence) and a barring order should be issued as a matter of urgency. They were ill advised to move out IMO. Should have just locked their doors and called 112.
Was discussing this case with friends and the idea came up that when the couple leave the property to go shopping, do errands or for any reason at all the owners move in with a locksmith and change the door lock. They're not doing anything illegal since they are the legal property owners. If the pair never leave the property together, then do it when the man leaves as the woman would be less of a physical threat. Would that work?
Well there are Different attitudes regarding this all over Mallorca due to interpretations of the Law and politics around this type of behavior it is a complicated situation and really no light at the end of the tunnel that light is a Train coming situation has not changed or improved at all and as the government has not done anything about the law it will stay as it is , more $ from Brussels for Sanchez so he has a nice ride , Nuts
Jeremy Ponsenby-SmytheSee you in jail after those actions.
Charles Dalrymple-ChumleySpanish law do not allow police to act without court order. Might take years.
It's no wonder there's a housing shortage.
There is simply no way that would happen to me. My friends and my golf clubs and baseball bats would see to that.
Heart breaking. Two good-for-nothings come in and effectively evict the rightful owners and the current statute law supports their right to do so. In some quarters the two squatters would wake at 3am to find a number of well-built hombres standing over them and proceeding to cart them off the property. With their possessions thrown out for good measure. When the law is an ass some decide to take it into their own hands and it's hard not to blame them. These squatters have no fear of the law, know exactly what they can get away with and laugh at the property owners who were kind to them in the beginning. I simply don't understand what is stopping the police from turning up on site and saying you don't own this, you don't have a legal rental contract and you've abused and threatened the owners. Leave peacefully or we move you out forcibly now. Come on officers, use a bit of common sense and get them out. What are they going to do, sue? I don't think so.