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france has imposed a curfew that requires complex spaces to be shot by 9 pm in major cities. you're watching t.v. news from but end up next for porter on location to stay change for that michael okwu will bring the news to you next hour of it until then you can get all the latest news on our web site that's dot com i'm going to criticize thanks for watching. where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers one official information as a journalist i have worked on the streets of many characters and their problems are always the same 14 social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption who can afford to stay silent when it comes to the sounds of the humans and singer michael folds who have decided
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to put their trust in us. my name is johnny carson i work. who is the bearer of bad tidings when a court issues a warrant he goes to people's homes and evict them. or not we have a court warrant or. the tenants are led away by the police but i haven't been paying the rent or. room where can i go with my children rents are high in barcelona there's a housing shortage thousands of people live in apartments as illegal occupants the pandemic has. made the situation even worse bailiff's ago
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a busy. week and work you know. there are 8 evictions on parco schedule today all in last me tell it a suburb of. the family he's going to next has to leave their home it's been ages since they last paid the rent. regular as we have a court warrant on have to leave today go home even though why weren't we told about it. or if i'm here now we must have been given plenty of notice from an article thing i found this but i know the owner of the apartment wants them out they owe him rent and the court has approved his possession plame. what should we do about it and i want the apartment back for my son so he can live here.
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really sure then go unpack your things get off the locks are changed right away the courts are cracking down on illegal occupancies especially with private claimants when apartments are owned by banks so companies decisions can take longer. i guess in this case the landlord has the final say so if he's willing to give them another 2 days then that's what happens if he wants the mounted a then they're out it's up to him to get in the stock and were among them the landlord has lost patience with the tenants. the. i think it's an acceptable if the part were grown by a bank it would be one thing. but when the owner is someone who worked for decades to buy property it's different. and i have no sympathy for them. that. spain has a housing problem during the financial crisis that began in 2008 many people were
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unable to pay off their mortgages and many homes we represented by the balance now the pen demick has ushered in the next crisis. people who were struggling before are now at rock bottom and. they had precarious work contracts and now they've lost their jobs. so they stop paying their rent. what's up with little girl . caylee. or have been sent by the court can you open the door. is on his way to an apartment with illegal occupants parker had given them 2 days notice but no different people seem to be living here. this is one of the how long have you been here since monday the more you sold the keys. the risk of what i guess we were talking we were here
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on monday and told the tenant he had to leave he's obviously taken off and sold the keys to this woman of us who had no idea she was being ripped off. parker cools the landlord's authorized representative and the apartment is occupying a woman with 2 children what should we do we got them out of but they're not ready to leave and we'd be kicking them out onto the street. the woman is from the dominican republic she's living on the breadline. ever got me the mother. you know i get $268.00 euros a month it's not enough. some of the most of because i feel the welfare office can take care of her a little bit but even before the pandemic they were overburdened one if this woman can't find somewhere else to live with family friends or people from her country or one then she and her 2 children are going to have a tough time here we talk a lot of landlords don't want children in the apartments you know. what i mean
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luckily the landlord agrees to grant her a delay to all of. you know the home 1st and we'll go now and come back on the 5th of november you need to have found somewhere to go by then. travelling people out of their homes it's not a job that parker enjoys he's been doing it for 12 years now so it's not easy always having to be the bad guy. best friend. you can see how people are struggling single mothers it's old people sick people and i have to kick them out it's often a horrible situation. when i started doing this job it cost me a lot of effort. over time you develop a thick skin you become immune was removed from the.
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these protesters belong to a tenants association they here to support a tenant who's being evicted today he has no way to go. to. their normal street after all i don't know what to do to avoid it i get $600.00 euros a month which i don't know i can go to a hotel. the riots pay. lease are here to the protesters are angry and the situation could escalate parker talks to the unionists to try and find a provisional solution. for the police intervene we want to find a solution but the tenant has to be willing to hand over the keys the apartment owner has the last word. in my view and i would have guessed that every bit of the unionist calls the owner and pleas for understanding the housing situation is dire . enough to have been lost because her lead wages have gone
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up 6 percent in 3 years while rents have gone up 34 percent the result is mass ejections there were 138 evictions in barcelona last week you know in the billions of dollars and. finally a compromise is found. saying ok i can stay until the 18th of march but then he asked to hand over the keys of your us. courts. and indeed across barcelona overrun with eviction claims a sign of the times. is 52 this wasn't his dream career he studied computing but couldn't find a suitable job. and i thought i'd be
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a really good programmer but what happened to me i became a civil servant want to. be doing this until i retire. his next task evicting tenants who also have a dog. the building belongs to a bank and is being renovated parker calls the animal protection service and the police. i need police backup illegal occupants aren't opening the door. we've been threatened with knives once someone turned on the gas to try and cause an explosion it can get dangerous that's when we call in the cops want to. know what i how are you. the building squandered if we heard a dog barking with 3 people escaped through the back door.
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of. the police go in the head to scope out the property. they find a pit bull which they'll take to an animal shelter. or . one of the squatters is still there it looks as though he couldn't take off with the others because he's sick. i'm fed up with living like this i've got no father no mother other lost everything. we had off last night yes you've got to stick to the law people might not always like it or yes but we've got to abide by the law you know otherwise we'd have anarchy it would be a jungle out there. but
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in the. park or lives with his partner they don't have children life has taught him that you're either born on lucky or lucky like him but i know in. my home since 1906 and we paid it off straight away my parents helped me even though i consider myself very lucky with our oil. but now he has to evict a young woman who gave birth just 2 weeks ago. when my mom not doing well where am i supposed to take my children.
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a group of activists are here to support her all parker can do is try to get more time on nov 8th i don't know often you can't put a 2 week old baby on the streets. ok i suggest we come back at the end of the month then we'll see the activists try to reason with the landlord. you know the welfare system is broken right now the only way to get another apartment will be to barricade yourself in the mayor's office. the landlord agrees to let the woman stay another 6 weeks part of it is her to find a new home as fast as possible. try family friends move into another place illegally if necessary she has to leave this one and she can't live on the streets. if this is reality.
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they're not going to throw out the space they are. and you know train myself to the apartment if i have to do. you know. situations like these still upset paca. idea mother mother song. got there have been many occasions when i've had to go against my better judgment if it were up to me i'd cave in on humanitarian grounds. you know when you've been told you're being evicted 4 times and you haven't looked for a new home at some point you have to draw the line at the.
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