By Cathy Elelman • Published: 08 Apr 2020 • 15:12
ARGUMENTS: Spanish press reported police detained the man after he threw out the family twice in the same night CREDIT: commons.wikimedia.org
A CALLOUS landlord who threw out a mother and her two children in the early hours of Wednesday morning in Mallorca capital Palma is under arrest.
According to reports police first intervened just before 1am, when after an argument the man put the woman and her children out on the street in the city’s Cala Major district, despite the coronavirus lockdown.
The woman reportedly rented a room from him.
Officers convinced him to allow the three back in, but just a few hours later there was another disagreement, and he booted the family back out.
Police detained him on charges of coercion.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
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