The Case of the “horrors”: “They kick me out of my own house”

2023-12-01 12:52:42

As we have been saying, in the city of Toledo There is a building, the María Cristina, in which there is a Burger Kinga well-known hotel and homes.

On the ground floor there is a septic tank, from which foul and unhealthy odors and gasesmakes life very difficult for around thirty families.

We tell it under the headings of The “horrors” building in Toledo that “kills” the neighbors with its foul smells y Living with toxic odors and gases emanating from under your house.

It is a case of environmental pollution that we carry in the Almodóvar & Jara buffet and soon we will undertake new legal actions. One of those affected, Margarita Girona (in the photos), updates us:

A few days ago, Miguel, you were interested in us and wanted to know how the situation in our homes was continuing, if there were changes and if something had improved, you asked what our reality was after the passage of time.

Today I respond to you with a feeling of defeat, of sinking, of great despondency and deep pain at the apparent loss of this battle for our health, well-being and quality of life. At the moment, those who cause me so much suffering, so much discomfort, are winning because despite so much struggle, they have managed to kick me out of my own house.

I have no choice but to emulate several tenants who lived rented in homes in this building who have left because it was too much for them. unbearable to live in these circumstances.

In my case, it’s not just that it’s unbearable to breathe this polluted environment day after day.

This persistent pollution is causing my health is increasingly deteriorating.

I suffer from serious complications that force me to have to leave this harmful and toxic environment that penetrates my house.

(In the photo Margarita Girona before her ordeal began).

For those who do not know the case, I will try to summarize as much as possible what happens in this case. “horrors” building and because.

In the 1980s of the last century a builder made a rectangular building with a large central patio. This building currently houses premises such as a hotel, a cafeteria, Burger Kingother offices, and homes like mine.

The construction company, although it has changed its name over the years, is in turn the owner of the hotel. The building, by construction, has a series of common elements such as foundations, floors, flights, pit, walls, roof, pipes, etc.

Of these common elements, the Hotel assumes as its own a facility that is common, which is the pit for collecting groundwater from the building and uses it as a septic tankto a cesspool that in turn He has been leasing it to Burger King for years. for use where to pour the fecal waste from public toilets and business staff, as well as waste from the establishment’s kitchens.

The neighbors do not know if there are other facilities connected to the septic tank since they have requested the construction company and hotel owner the sanitary evacuation plans of the building, as well as those of that appropriate facility and its evacuation route or routes, but has not provided them.

Burger King has also been requested information on the products used in cesspool maintenanceinformation that has not been provided either.

This facility discharges its contents into the municipal sanitation network and when this occurs, many times, more than once a day, the discharges cause an imposition of terrible fecal stenches accompanied by gases and chemicals, which contaminate and poison the indoor air of the facility. our homes making it unbreathable.

Furthermore, it must be taken into account that we can now talk about gases in a clear and specific way: The neighbors, through the advice and direction of an expert in Occupational Risks and Indoor Air Quality, have been able to capture – in several homes where they were carried out tests- the intrusion of gases.

And it turns out that they are very, very toxic and harmful to health such as, among others, ammonia and sulfuric acid or hydrogen sulfideknown by experts as “sewer gas”, highly harmful and dangerous.

You ask me why my situation is different from that of the rest of the neighbors, why they don’t leave their homes and continue holding on.

What is completely evident is that being breathing this pollution sustained harms everyone, but in my particular case, in 2016 I was diagnosed with two diseases, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (SQM).

Having MCS, an “environmental disease”, is a great nuisance not only because of the harm it causes to your body’s health but also because of the changes and care that you have to undertake in your life to try to avoid the effects of chemicals, when we are surrounded by them!

Regarding the environmental control prescribed by specialists for the place where I live, my house, it must be understood that my home is my shelterwhere in theory I isolate myself, protect myself, where I try to feel safe from being able to escape the toxic chemicals that are outside.

I purify the air that comes from outside and the water that enters my house. Food, cleaning, personal hygiene, cosmetics and etc. products are ecological and everything, absolutely everything is by medical prescription to take care of the deterioration of health and that the disease does not progress.

But there is no way, they are gases and they leak everywhere, there is no one to stop them once they throw the contents of that pit outside.

DESPITE MY CARE, I CONTINUE GETTING WORSE

Just as I have taken great measures to make my home my refuge, I also have to take care of my health. For years I have undertaken different and expensive tests and treatments, addressing different approaches and ways of lower the toxic load of my entire organism.

I am chronically ill and my care and treatments are also chronic and periodic, and everything is solely covered by me. I have invested a lot of time, energy and a lot of money, causing tremendous impoverishment for me and my family for take care of my health…

…To keep getting worse because of this environmental pollution, of this monster that sneaks into our homes, because after several crises of worsening due to breathing this very harmful environment, in a mandatory clinical review I have been evaluated again confirming the progression of the disease to the degree serious.

They have condemned me to wear a special protection mask even outdoors. To have to isolate myself in a brutal way, with hardly any social life. I have been condemned to endure great emotional suffering.

They have caused my world and that of my family to shake before the tsunami caused by thinking about the complicated circumstances we have to face when our lives, our projects and customs are broken in this way.

WHY DO I FILE A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT?

Because I know how to discern between what “acceptance” means in the face of circumstances that arise in the lottery of life, such as having to suffer from a chronic illness with such a tremendous impact, and a perfectly avoidable problem like the one that has affected and harmed us for so many years.

The right of these companies to carry out an economic activity must not conflict with the fundamental right to my health nor with the privacy or inviolability of my home.

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