Santi - 16 July 2008 02:22 PM
The EU sets guideline’s, not all EU countries implement them.
My job in Spain carries non of the Health & Safety guidelines the same job in the UK carries, yet its the EU who set the standards, the UK decided to implement them and Spain decided to ignore them.
true., Spain and Italy has no guarantee to control Police Violence as well, they tend to have the right to beat anyone they want with out questions., all they need to find out in order to beat someone in there own homes is if they have a good job or the money to made the police pay for it.
My friend was renting a flat and decide to rent one of the rooms out, he did not need the owners permission since the under tenant was only staying a short period of 3 months., but the CATALAN neighbors claimed it was illegal and harassed my friend and his girlfriend to the point where the girl renting the room was so scared she believed them and wanted to leave immediately y after hearing lies that my friend never gives the deposits back to who he rents a room out too, remind you it was his first time.
The neighbors had volunteer police (no guns) who they knew go to my friends house demanding his ID etc and saying to give the girl her deposit and all back and that renting was illegal, he explained to them that he asked the owner and agency and it was legal but of-course these fake cops started threatening him claiming he locked the girl out of her room which was not true at all.., so my friend called 112 and verified that they where not real cops but they where all ready gong by then so he was advised to go to the police station to see what this girl claimed, the police told him they had no idea what he was talking about and no girl ever called or showed up to claim anything at his address, so he told the police that he wanted to file a complaint against her in case the neighbors used her and lied again claiming he locked her out but the police said she had no contract or that anyone authorized a document saying she lived there and no one was hurt so nothing can be reported.
My friend gets back to his house and his girlfriend said she was back with the cops while he was at the police station and they said they where going to return, again he goes to the police station and asks and then the guy he spoke to finally said yeah she was there a day before crying claiming he was gonna rip of her deposit and she would not get it back, but he told the guy he never spoke to her about anything yet or was he ever told she wanted to move, she decided this based on her paranoia thanks to neighbors lying to her that he was this type of person etc etc.
Finally all the police could do is tell my friend that sunday she will be there to get her things and have her deposit, so my friend stashed a camera in his piso behind a curtain before they came, he told me he waited till he passed out, finally around 5PM sunday 2 cops and some strange person who is not the owner or neighbor where outside the hallway with the girl, i watched the video, the police came inside harassing him in front of his girlfriend yelling real loud so the neighbors hear it in the hall way to humiliate him saying you cant rent a room to anyone if your not the owner and you MUST give the deposits back etc etc., while i watched the video he also went back to the police station with to complain., every time my friend was asked for ID or anything the cops acted like he was going to reach for a gun or run out a window so they said slowly slowly, hands up i mean they where harassing and trying to make a scene for the neighbors, and when he turned his back the cops examined the locks and so on.
The whole thing took 1 hour and 20 minutes, the cops are supposed to bring peace to the community but instead harassed people abusing the law., the video shows one cop saying to my friend if you have her deposit we will make sure she is out of here and never comes back, basically asking for the money for themselves., later on her way out in the video she tells my friend she was surprised he had her money so he asked her why did you think this, and she said the neighbors are relatives of the chief of police and they told me you did this before, of course he said its a lie and he never did anything to them to deserve this,
The story was so long and confusing i fell asleep watching the videos and soaked it up a week later, the girl was from Syria the police realized later when they examined her ID that she was born in Syria but lived in Italy, she never filed a complaint or was there one ever made, she was just at the station waiting for a free car to get a ride a block away to the house with the cops., my friend told me many woman where waiting at the police station from been robbed, raped and beaten and that this girl simply gets a police car on tax payers expense to the house a block away is outrages.
Anyway, that is what i call INJUSTICE and CORRUPTION.
In the end the owner of the flat told him the neighbors hate her for renting to foreigners and she never goes to the building meetings and its why she does not live there, :(
