Spain expels a Cuban who was 'squatting' in luxury villas and was involved in a murder

He goes by the name León, although he is known by the initials L.P.P.M. He is around 60 years old and is not a stranger to the Spanish press or the police, who have been tracking him since at least 2020 for "squatting" luxury villas in Marbella and Estepona, municipalities in the Andalusian province of Málaga frequented by high-end tourists.

Finally, last October, León was expelled from Spain, but he has avoided being deported to Cuba, where he was born, because he has political asylum in Czechia, and this European country has agreed to accept him despite his thirty criminal records.

León had been taking advantage of Spanish laws that prevent evicting someone who moves into a house that isn’t theirs if there are pregnant women or minors living there. This Cuban was occupying luxury villas in Marbella and Estepona, which he then rented out to drug traffickers for use as fuel storage for narco boats bringing drugs to Spain from North Africa.

His good fortune abandoned him on August 12th, when a 43-year-old British man shot dead a citizen with a Belgian passport, which turned out to be fake as he was actually a 36-year-old Serbian linked to criminal organizations in the Balkans. The incident occurred during one of the after-hours parties that León organized, complete with a DJ, in the basement of the luxurious house he had 'occupied' in Estepona (Málaga). There, young partygoers gathered continuously, much to the dismay of the neighbors in these exclusive areas, whom the Cuban had at times threatened with "a machete," according to the Spanish newspaper El Confidencial.

However, despite the long list of criminal records he carried, Spain could not expel him since he had been granted political asylum in a country within the European Union.

The police conclude that León was a "professional squatter," who had people working for him, gathering information on vacant houses ready to be occupied. The chalet where he was arrested belongs to an investment fund, and León was living there with three women who were engaging in prostitution.

However, following the assassination that took place this summer, the police agents tightened their grip around León, who even confessed to the Spanish press that he was living "by the grace of God"; they took him to Madrid-Barajas Airport and sent him back to the Czech Republic.