> It's about a landlord who's too greedy (...)

You're letting your antisocial bias show.

The street was packed with businesses. The restaurant was a business hoping to profit by taking over someone else's property against their will. Once their profiting scheme failed, they resorted to pull extortion schemes at the expense of every single person living in a 4 block radius.

You're here talking about greed as if the businesses trying to freeload off of everyone are social justice warriors, when all they were doing is trying to turn a profit by putting everyone around them in danger.

I’m not sure how they do it in Spain but in the US merely lowering the rent is not always realistic with the way financing values properties based on rent values (collected or not).

> he preferred to pay for a security firm, rather than lower the rent

He’s the owner. He can do whatever he wants. That’s how ownership works.