The illegal occupation of real estate has become one of the protagonists of Spanish public life. A criminal phenomenon whose constant presence in the media and in the discourse of politicians does not correspond to the real data of the Spanish courts, but which the right and the extreme right use to feed a specific discourse: that of insecurity and the ineffectiveness of the State. Desokupa, Daniel Esteve’s company, is riding the crest of all these waves with a new business model, its ‘Club Desokupa’, with which they convince the population that they need to know how to defend themselves from knife attacks and which they have extended, to through agreements, to the security forces: the National Police and the Armed Forces.
The latest example is the agreement signed with the Spanish Troop and Marine Association (ATME) that the Ministry of Defense has already demanded to annul. The courses, which according to Esteve will start in Madrid next January, will have one objective: to train soldiers who are going to reintegrate into civil society so that they can work in the private security sector. The sector from which a relevant part of the workers of this type of property vacancy companies come.
Add Comment