"We don't know what to do anymore." This is how the president of a neighborhood association in Valterra expresses himself, complaining about the presence of homeless people in the neighborhood. "They relieve themselves in the street," he says.
According to Miguel Ángel Fuentes, during the day the homeless people are located next to La Caixa, located next to the Hiperdino in Valterra, but when it closes, they move to sleep on the opposite sidewalk, just below the building whose community he presides over. "During the day there are six or seven, but more gather," says this man, who says that there are up to a dozen homeless people "who sleep on the sidewalk, who don't even let people pass, and urinate in the street."
This man assures that he contacted the Local Police, where they told him that "that was Social Services' business." "I don't know what to do legally. Take them to a shelter or something," demands the president of this neighborhood association, who also criticizes the "bad image" that this implies for the capital. "They are there with all the blankets, pillows, with their bottles of wine, and they have everything dirty," he concludes.