Dozens of people from squatter movement of Barcelona have marched through the streets of the Gràcia neighborhood causing damage to several establishments and street furniture and after aborting the concentration that they had planned in Plaza Alfonso Comín to protest the unemployment in Bonanova.
The protesters have marched behind the banner “Our houses are trenches” and they have gone down streets like Gran de Gracia throwing some stones and cans of smoke, the Urban Police have explained.
According to the Mossos’ balance sheet, there was damage to the windows of two telephone establishments, a real estate agency and a credit institution.
In addition, They would have burned two containers.
The agents have indicated that they will collect complaints from the affected parties and will proceed to open the corresponding investigation to identify those responsible.
The group would have finally dissolved in the Plaza del Raspall, according to the local police.
This alternative mobilization in the Gracia neighborhood has been carried out shortly after the majority of those who were going to attend the concentration called by social networks in Antoni Comín Square avoided approaching the place due to the extensive Mossos device, which had carry out searches and identifications.
“Protest in revenge for Kubo and La Ruïna” was the initial call for this Saturday at 7 p.m.
After 8 p.m., some agents went to the Plaza del Nord in the Gracia neighborhood, where around sixty people had already gathered as an alternative location.
This Friday, the 7th investigative court of Barcelona issued provisional release for the seven detained on Thursday in the evictions of the Bonanova properties.
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The judge received on the same Friday the seven detained as a result of the incidents arising from the vacating of the two squatted houses and has decreed provisional release for them with the condition that they be available to justice when required.
The Mossos d’Esquadra then evicted the two squatted buildings of El Kubo and La Ruïna in La Bonanova in Barcelona in about five hours without any notable incidents, within the extensive police force deployed from the early hours of the morning.