Finding a body he had been dead and mummified for five years in an abandoned building hit Valladolid, Spain. But not only did this news shock the neighbors, they were also surprised to find out I was still paying the rent.
Antonio Torralba, an employee who would have been 64 todayappeared dead in a property in Bailarín Vicente Escudero street, according to preliminary estimates by forensics.
Who found this man state of decay They were squatters last Sunday when they were settling into a house on this block.
The story took place in 2022 and has gone viral again in recent weeks.
Bewilderment of neighbors by the dead
The neighbors hardly knew him. However, the owner of the small one-story house evidently knew Antonio Torralba. He had settled in this house in 2003, 19 years ago.
The tenant still couldn’t believe the shock she’d had when the police called her to inform her of the gruesome discovery.
“I paid the rent every monthsince he had a permanent wire transfer in his current account”, revealed the woman who got along very well with the tenant.
And he exclaimed: “The phone was active, even if the answering machine went off. We don’t ask more if everything is in order. But who would have thought that he had been dead for so long!”.
The relationship was so good that it had allowed Torralba to remain the only inhabitant of the block of six houses, plus the small shed in the courtyard where he lived.
future of the property
The owners’ floor plan of this ancient building was to shoot him down and they held him back.
The apartment in question, of about 60 square meters, is made up of a living room, a bedroom, a kitchen and a bathroom.
The last tenant to leave the block did so a little over a year ago. Only Antonio remained and the owners feared for them, as has now been verified.
“I have a neighbor who leaves her shopping cart inside. This helps me keep the building clean. I know that sometimes they entered by jumping over the side wall. They even tried to get in the door, but the neighbors, who all know me, got their attention,” the owner said.
State Police officers reported that the house may already be abandoned. For this they put a large number of padlocks on it and in a short time They will cut off the electricity and water supplyprevious step to the procedures for the demolition of the old building.
Source: Clarin
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