He suicide of two sisters hours before he was evicted from his Barcelona apartment this Monday for non-payment of 9,000 euros, once again shows the worst side of the situation. pressure on real estate in a city where, despite the initiatives adopted, the average rental price reaches 1200 euros per month.

Two women had 64 and 54 years old And they stopped paying rent in 2021, just as her mother died after contracting covid, leading area residents to speculate Monday that pensioner was only one with income In the house, even after his death, no one paid rent anymore.

This case was unknown to the housing assistance NGOs with whom they never got in touchbut also for the residents of the area, because the sisters It seems they didn’t share the situation with anyone. what made them commit suicide.

Nuriathe elder of the two was the only one who left hometo run errands and go shopping, and also the only one who had his own name for the neighbors, since the youngest went by “years without going outside“, they say.

“The news took us by surprise because we didn’t expect it and we didn’t imagine that they would find themselves in this situation,” a neighbor told EFE.

The woman assured that they were two sisters.”They weren’t particularly involved in neighborhood life.” and he knew only the eldest, with whom he sometimes had informal conversations on the portal and little else, because “he hardly left the house.”

Unknown case in the vicinity

The municipal housing services did not provide a vulnerability report because they “were unable to contact anyone” during their visits and “messages left” were not responded to.

This Monday, the Consistory experts went to give psychological support for neighbors.

«I knew Nuria. Although I haven’t been here for a long time, once a month I would go shopping at the grocery store and we would chat. What of his mother influenced him“He always wore a mask and asked me to keep a certain distance,” Dolors, the owner of a grocery store a few meters from the building, told EFE.

She, unlike her housemates who mostly learned the news early in the day, learned of what had happened early in the morning when she opened her business, although she did not know the sisters’ identities or that they were about to be evicted.

The butcher complained that rent price in the zone Sant Andreu forced many of its clients to “leave the area.”

“It was a very quiet area and it was very nice, but now a 1,000 euro apartment here must be terrible,” he concluded.

This Second suicide due to eviction which will be known in the Spanish region of Catalonia in 2024, and this result has been well known to housing defense organizations for more than ten years.

Before these sisters committed suicide Alexresident of the city Sabadellfrom 70 years oldwho was evicted after thirty years of living in the same house.