Bullets, displaced families, burnt houses and a dead girl: a lawless corner in Plasencia

In an invisible corner of Spain, a two-year-old girl has died of a bullet in the head. It has been 15 days ago, but it could have been any week. Because in this network of poorly paved alleys, which climb steep a hill that no one can see, without garbage cans, hardly streetlights, shops, cafes or schools, neither the police come near. “What happens there does not affect us”, explains a municipal official. In this neighborhood of Plasencia (Extre…