Overview

• Recent heavy rains flooded a rooftop terrace with a blocked drain, sending foul, dark water into lower apartments and prompting calls to emergency services.
• Firefighters forced entry into the Fuensanta neighborhood apartment on Calle Luis Fenollet after a large pigeon infestation hindered access and found a skeleton inside.
• Neighbors say they had not seen the resident, identified locally as Antonio F., for more than a decade, with estimates of death ranging from roughly 11 to 15 years.
• Utility bills and a bank-paid pension continued by direct debit, and neighbors believed he had moved to a care home, so no missing-person alert was filed.
• National Police initially sent homicide investigators but, finding no apparent violent cause, handed the case to a district unit, while media reports differ on the man's birth year and formal identification remains pending.