The coronavirus pandemic affected practically all businesses, and it is now when some of the entrepreneurs seek to get ahead, such as Fernando Torreswhich by the hand of his chain of gyms, New Fitnessclaim compensation in court for “the damage suffered” during the pandemic.
Specifically, and as explained ‘The confidential’ exclusively, from the chain They demand 808,100.58 euros from the Community of Madrid due to the restrictions that were imposed between March 2020 and May 2021. The regional government rejected this compensation, which has caused the case to reach the supreme courtas reported by legal sources to the aforementioned medium.
And it is that this is already the tenth year of the business in which the former Atlético de Madrid player embarked with the brothers Javier y Oscar Melendez in 2013. A business with which they managed to achieve benefits of more than 100,000 euros in 2019 for their three centers (Madrid capital, Pinto and Aranjuez)and which has plummeted due to COVID-19, with business falling by 43% and ending the 2020 with losses of more than 200,000 euros.
Some losses that then caused the company to denounce the “intense and disproportionate” measures that were taken in the Community of Madrid. Thus, now they demand, thanks to the calculation of the alleged damages, almost 270,000 euros for the center of Aranjuez, and almost 600,000 euros for the group in generalin addition to adding “legal interest”.
A case for the Supreme Court
Now, after two years of disputes, the gym chain has not only brought the case against the Community of Madrid, but also now also includes the Ministry of the Presidency of the Government of Spain. And it is that from the National Court they indicate that they must appeal to the Supreme Court: “The competence to hear this appeal corresponds to the Third Chamber of the Supreme Court.”
