The Madrid Tenants' Union has carried out a picket at the head office of the real estate company Alquiler Seguro, with the aim of denouncing the "mafia-like" practices that it attributes to the company, in an action carried out a few hours before the start of the 24-hour general strike on housing.
"Today there was a picket at the Alquiler seguro headquarters to denounce its mafia-like practices. It's not only the vultures and the landlords; there are also those who call landlords to convince them to raise our rent," the union organization has claimed on its social networks.
During the protest, members of the Madrid Tenants' Union accessed the property and threw leaflets inside the building. At the same time, one of its spokespersons directly pointed to real estate companies as "those responsible" for the housing crisis.
Moments later, the collective stated that police agents would have detained, inside the Alquiler Seguro headquarters, the people who took part in the action, without providing, for now, any additional information about what happened.
"Those who make it their business to call landlords to show them mafia-like practices, such as charging us illegal fees, must feel ashamed for having radicalized the rental market," they added from the union.
The Confederation of Tenants' Unions (CSI), UGT, CCOO, CGT, CNT, Acción Social de Solidaridad Obrera, and Co.Bas have called for a 24-hour general strike on housing this Wednesday, 11 November, as a form of protest in response to the situation of access to housing in Spain. The strike is scheduled from 00.00 hours until 23.59 hours that same day.