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After a British woman was captured by the slums of an £ 138,000 villa, she issued a sharp warning to others who are considering buying property in Spain – and now she is forced to sell less than one -fifth of its value. Louise Bawn, a 53 -year -old of Bristol, was illegally invaded in February 2023 and fought for more than a year to get back the two -bedroom property in Cartama near Malaga.

However, he decided to move away after he spent approximately € 20,000 (£ 17,000) for legal wages, flights and security costs and did not receive a significant assistance from the Spanish authorities. He said: “I’m losing more than 100,000 € (£ 86,000), I’m not talking about stealing two cars and the amount of the house and the garage.”

The house, which was left to him by his late father, was renewed when he was broken. Despite the open CCTV evidence that men have broken and entering, he claims that the local police refused to move and even with the slums when they return.

He told me Mailonline: “We secured the house and broke again within five hours. Guardia came to civilian, but they believed in us and the real estate agent.”

The slums claimed that they lived there for two years. Ms. Bawn said that the police asked if they were asleep there and asked, “they just shake their shoulders.”

The police finally used to use drugs when a group of slums were removed in September 2024 – when they emerged – the property was searched. Sun panels worth £ 43,000, his father’s tools, two cars, and even a newly established kitchen had disappeared.

He said his father was a tool worth thousands of pounds.

In a few hours, another group was moved and added that he believes that there was a network in the region.

Ms. Bawn sells Villa for only € 30,000 (£ 26,000) and it should receive advertising as “Okupado ,, that is, with slums.

He said his advice was “don’t think of buying from there.”

44 -year -old British real estate agent Paul Stuart, working on Costa del Sol, said that he was “getting worse” and accusing him of active as some organized criminals.

He warned that there was a “Squatter’s Bible” that advised people about how to manipulate the law, and that court accumulation in inner regions such as Carthama made evacuations even more difficult.