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Does anybody know how to deal with dangerous neighbours in Spain?

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Chandra · 05/08/2004 21:29

I just wonder if anybody knows what to do in these cases:

DH's mother bought a garden flat in a very expensive development, she is a widow and lives alone with her tiny little dog. She is a professional painter and her greatest pleasure is her garden.

The obnoxious neigbour lives just upstairs, has a very short fuse and in the last two years has threaten to beat one of the building workers with a baseball bat, has beaten another neighbour, has been verbally violent to other neighbours' relatives and he has been sexually harassing MIL since 2 yrs ago, finally his hopes of romance have turned into rage and has beign harrassing her with making her life impossible and threatened MIL with killing her dog (an easy task considering his balcony is just above MIL's garden and he also has weapons at home).

MIL spent a week in England visiting us and when she went back she found that the neighbour clossed the water supply of the garden, he also has been asking for a company to come and set rats poison in all the garden areas as he claims there are rats (there are none, if any there's any fauna is an excess of cats) but it seems that the dog is the main target (specially as even if MIL keep the dog out of the public areas the neighbour can throw poisoned food from upstairs and blame the dog being allowed in public areas which she is not). He also has managed to get the head of the leasehold to send a letter to MIL restricting her from painting in her own house claiming those activities can cause a fire or create explosive fumes (she paint with oils but the room is perfectly ventilated and she doesn't paint in such escale as to produce dangerous fumes). So, in short MIL now lives in fear always worried that the neighbour can kill her dog, her plants, or prevent her from painting (which is her main income)

Any Spanish out there knowing what to do in such a situation?

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Linnet · 05/08/2004 22:57

Chandra, I'm not Spanish so I'm afraid that I can't give any help directly. But Can your mother in law get her lawyer to write a letter to the head of the leasehold complaining about her neighbour? Maybe she's already done this I don't know.

Sorry I'm not much help but I just wanted to say how sorry I am for your mil, big (((hugs))) to her and her little dog.

Chandra · 06/08/2004 09:57

Thanks Linnet, we have made some phone calls early this morning, and she is to get a lawyear to deal with the situation and get the police involved. The sad thing is that she has been looking for years for a flat with a big space for a garden and she is so afraid now that she is considering selling. The neighbour is such an explosive person (and owns a gun) that I don't know if confronting him will make the things worse or just scare him off....

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marialuisa · 06/08/2004 10:20

Chandra-do they have the "denunciation" system in place where your MIL works? Not sure if it applies to private homes but my dad used it against a neighbouting farmer successfully.

You complain about the behaviour to the council and they can enforce changes?

katierocket · 06/08/2004 10:25

You need SenoraPhostrophe, she's lives in spain I think.

whymummy · 06/08/2004 10:30

that's awful chandra,he sounds like he should be locked up,couldn't she get other neighbours to write a letter of complain?she should also write everything down and even put a camera to catch him the act and then show the police,does she have a male relative that could stay with her for a while?i am spanish but i've been away for so long that i don't know how the system in those cases work,there should be a website advicing people on what to do and their rights,i will check for you
so sorry she's going through this

Chandra · 06/08/2004 10:33

MAria Luisa, do you remeber what was the name of the "denunciation" system? I have been looking at the MI pages but the only violence or threats that are specified are those related to domestic violence (family affairs I guess)

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Chandra · 06/08/2004 10:39

Hi Whymummy! how was your holiday?

It seems the other neighbours are a bit wary of complaining about him as he is so agressive. Actually the trigger of all this problem was that MIL asked him once if he could turn the volume of the music down a bit. That's when she got the firt threat of getting the dog killed... The only male relative she has is DH and I'm afraid of suggesting him to go to Spain to have a word with him as I feel it would be putting him in unnecesary danger or cause more problems to MIL

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whymummy · 06/08/2004 10:48

hi chandra
try here www.todalaley.com i have to go so i didn't check it but you might find something there,as soon as i get back i'll try and be of more help.
is she in mallorca?

marialuisa · 06/08/2004 10:53

Chandra, dad just referred to it as "denunciation". He's in Mallorca near Puerto Pollensa so it may be a regional thing?

Chandra · 06/08/2004 11:02

Denunciation is a term that covers a very wide variety of problems (a complain of a problem to any organism is a denunciation)

Thanks Whymummy, I'll have a look at it.

PS. Yes, she is in Mallorca

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