Spanish police are investigating the case of a domestic worker who occupied the house of the elderly woman where she worked after the death of the owner, victim of covid-19. Pilar, 75, died at her home in Leganés in late March. Tells the newspaper El Mundo who was a widow, lived alone and had a 33-year-old Peruvian woman named Rosa for a month and a half. This woman is accused by two daughters of the victim of, without informing the family, of having requested the cremation of the body and occupied the house of the septuagenarian.
Pilar’s daughter Rosana makes serious accusations, reported by the Spanish newspaper. “We are dealing with something more than an ‘okupa’, since my mother was not sick”, she says, guaranteeing that ten days before death, the maid changed the housing and water contracts, as well as the insurance , with a supposed power of attorney granted by the elderly woman.
“I would like to know what happened to my mother at that time. I also had coronavirus at that time and I was hospitalized for 30 days. When we heard of her death, she had already been cremated,” he said. “I think my mother did not die naturally and we will do everything possible to clarify what happened,” says the daughter, despite knowing that without an autopsy she will hardly be able to prove her serious accusations.
Pilar’s daughter reports that her mother had a caregiver for a long time who left earlier in the year and that someone later recommended the Peruvian. In mid-February, the South American woman started working two hours a day cleaning the house. “At the end of March I was hospitalized with coronavirus, but I had daily contact with my mother during the peak days of the pandemic. I was told during the night that she had died. The day before she died, she was fine and we don’t know what actually happened because the medical certificate indicates that my mother died of a possible covid-19 “, says the daughter.
Neighbors also confirm that two days before death, the woman left the house to buy bread and that her condition was “apparently good”. “I talked to her and it looked like she was phenomenal,” said a friend of Pilar’s to Telemadrid television.
Rosana reports that the maid went home from Monday to Friday and that her mother died on a Saturday. “That day she didn’t have to go home, but she showed up and said she discovered my mother’s body when she came in. But she didn’t call 911 or do anything. She should have called the family and what she did was to tell the funeral home and order the cremation. He lied when he said that my mother had no children “, she says, quoted by El Mundo.
According to early investigations, Rosa told the funeral director over the phone that Pilar had no family. She presented an authorization to bury the body and also provided a copy of the elderly woman’s identity card. “We believe that it falsified everything. I don’t believe my mother was able to sign that power of attorney. Not even my mother gave you the keys to the house when you hired her. We don’t know how he had the keys to the house or the reason that caused my mother’s death “, points out the daughter.
The Peruvian did not want to present her version of events. He will only have commented that in his country of origin the people who care for the elderly stay with the house when they die. “The deceased authorized me to keep the house,” he said to one of Pilar’s two daughters.
Those responsible for the company Desokupa – specializing in legal proceedings in cases of occupation of houses and contacted by the daughters of the mortal victim – guarantee that they are planning an action to recover the house and for the Peruvian woman to be “accused of murder, theft, appropriation , usurpation of documents and fraud “.
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