Daniel Esteve, head of Desokupa, was arrested twice by the Mossos but never convicted. He has spurred an artificial conflict in the Bonanova neighborhood of Barcelona.

"He knows how to see where the business opportunity is," say police sources. There is no evidence of convictions against the company so far, so far without evidence in court, says the lawyer for the company, who calls him a "chauffeur of the far-right" and a "master manipulator"