This Saturday night the Mossos arrested nine people who had participated in a riot in the Gardunya square in the Raval of Barcelona, according to ‘El Caso’ and police sources have confirmed to ACN.
The events occurred at half past eight on Saturday night, when the police received a notice alerting about a confrontation with around twenty people involved. Various provisions of the Mossos and the Urban Guard They moved to the point and intervened.
He Raval Habitat Union and the Ciutat Vella Mutu Labor Support Punt have indicated that the events began when an “organized group” tried to assault the Migrant Tancada. Two of those arrested are citizens who live in that squatted space.
According to the police version, some of those arrested presented bumps and bruises, but no serious injuries. The Research unit The Ciutat Vella police station has opened an investigation to clarify the incident.
He Raval Habitat Union and the Ciutat Vella Mutu Labor Support Punt They denounced the police intervention and assured that arrests were made “indiscriminately” and with a “racist bias”, since they stated that all those arrested are immigrants.
“They have a racial profile and were done without mediation or any intervention alternative,” commented a spokesperson for the Punt de Suport Mutu Laboral of Ciutat Vella, who reported that the agents “not only detained the people who were outside, but They entered the interior of the Tancada“.
Criminalization campaign
In this sense, he considered that the action is part of the “criminalization campaign” against the old Massana and the Tancada and recalled that these are two essential spaces to guarantee the “subsistence” of people without resources and who often suffer labor exploitation.
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The Raval Tancada It is a space that has been occupied since 2018. On November 20, the Raval Housing Union reported that Barcelona City Council wanted to evict it “illegal“. The eviction was stopped and those affected criticized that the procedure was being processed through administrative means. In addition, they indicated that the file had been sent to the judge so that the judicial process could begin.
Municipal sources stated that personnel from the Legal, Social Services and Urban Police to verify squatting. The council detailed that it would continue with the administrative procedure, “ensuring the maximum legal guarantees and at the same time offering social care resources to people in vulnerable situations.”