A police macro device prevents riots between opposing protesters in Bonanova

The Mossos d’Esquadra have deployed a device more than 300 agents that have shielded the Plaza de la Bonanova and have kept at opposite corners, about 100 meters away, to the two manifestations of the opposite sign that threatened to generate a problem of public order hours before the electoral campaign began for the Barcelona’s town hall.

The policemen have emptied the square and the two demonstrations, for and against the ‘squats’ in Plaza Bonanova called ‘the Kubo’ and ‘The ruin’, They haven’t even managed to make eye contact. Yes they have been insulted without being heard by the noise of the helicopter that flew over the operation.

At 9:20 p.m., the demonstration in support of the ‘squats’ has left the place, half an hour after arriving. The only moment of tension has been between these demonstrators, around 500, and riot police, who have loaded during the journey to prevent them from approaching a street that did not interest the Mossos.

The tension around the aforementioned ‘squatted’ farms, which had not generated serious coexistence problems that the Catalan police of the district police station of Sarria-Sant Gervasi, has grown in recent weeks in the heat of mobilizations of political parties such as CitizensValentines or vox, three fishing groups in the noblest fishing ground of the capital. In the municipal elections of 2019was the candidacy led by Manuel Valls and which included Citizens the one that achieved the highest vote share in the census sections of the area, followed by JxCat and ERC.

Beyond the political formations, the drops of reagent that have generated the combustion have ended up putting Desokupaa private eviction company outside the law, investigated in the past for its links to the extreme rightwho came to promise on social networks that this Thursday he would put an end to the ‘squats’.

However, after making clear the Mossos that they were not going to consent to any eviction being carried out, which, in a rule of law, can only be ordered by a judge and carried out by a police force, Desokupa He announced that he would not act, although he would demonstrate to “celebrate” a supposed victory over the ‘squatters’, without revealing what achievement he was referring to.

the three manifestations

The first demonstration called this Thursday was in support of the squats and was made up of self-styled activists “antifascists”. The second demonstration was from neighbors opposed to the squats. The third, physically placed next to the second, was that of Desokupa. The device has emptied the square completely and the concentrations of different signs have been located on opposite sides.

From inside ‘the Kubo’ and ‘The ruin’, a variable community of ‘squatters’ that oscillates between the twenty and one hundred depending on the days or the time slots, the last few weeks have been lived with growing concern. The Mossos have observed a process of fortifying the facades, consisting of filling the enclosure surrounding both properties with fences, chains and padlocks. The Catalan police also know that some of its members have decided to “arm themselves & rdquor; with instruments likeslingshot” either “fire extinguishers”.

Through a video released by Twittertwo hooded spokesmen for ‘La Ruïna’ added more confusion to the Bonanova episode by asking the Spanish government to hand over all the flats that La Ruïna holds sarebthe body created to keep the real estate assets that the banks accumulated during the crisis that broke out in 2008.

Neighbors have denounced that in recent days the attacks carried out by the ‘squatters’ have been more frequent than in previous years. A woman claimed to have suffered a ball shot on Saturday afternoon and this Wednesday, 24 hours of the large demonstration, some families claimed to have been thrown slingshot projectiles against the facade.

According to police sources, these attacks are part of clashes that some young people have had with the ‘squats‘. The one this Wednesday, for example, happened after a group of people threw stones at ‘The ruin’.

In contrast, residents of the neighborhood of the bonanova interviewed on the street during the demonstrations this Thursday they ruled out conflict with the ‘squatters’. It was the case of bea, who assured this newspaper that “never in the life” there has been tension with them so far, or Neuswho said “to have lived very well” with the ‘squatters’ of ‘the Kubo’ and ‘The ruin’ except for “some punctual little thing”.

No precautionary measures

The two ‘squatted’ properties are adjoining and are located in a privileged place in Barcelona, ​​the Plaza de Bonanova. Both belong to the sareb, which already has an expulsion order to evict ‘El Kubo’ but not yet from ‘La Ruïna’. The Mossos will not intervene until this second one arrives.

As long as it doesn’t, the sareb He has requested precautionary measures in court to evict in view of the tension that the ‘squats’ accumulate. But the court has rejected them.

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Last March, the court already paralyzed the eviction of the Kubo to wait for a single joint eviction with The ruin, since both farms are connected. Since then, the strain Neighborhood has become evident in the upper area, with Cs, Vox and Valents fighting to make the protests profitable in the face of the electoral campaign. Mossos d’Esquadra, for their part, they presented this Wednesday a report in the duty court about this ‘squatting’ in the Plaza de la Bonanova, explaining the situation in the area.

The Catalan police, after the episode of this Thursday, is preparing for a stable device in Bonanova, with uniformed citizen security patrols, which will last until the tension disappears. Because the eviction, like it or not, will take place when the second orderan opinion shared by Barcelona’s town hall.