Of those muds these muds. As explained to this newspaper from the entity badalonaand confirm sources of the municipal government“a residual group” of the approximately 200 occupants of the gorg ship ―which caught fire in 2020 and killed four people―they ended up in the warehouse on Avenida Alfons XIIIin the neighborhood of Progrés, Evicted this Monday.
A fire and two evictions
The story of the occupants of the Gorg ship, located on Guifré street, had another intermediate chapter. After the tragic fire, the municipal government ordered the demolition of the farm, and many of the who survived the flames sub-saharan migrants mostly finished occupying another nearby shipin the street of progress. Her stay on this second ship ended abruptly in January 2022, with a mass police eviction.
On that occasion, there were a hundred people who stayed on the street, in the middle of winter and denouncing the abandonment of their situation: “Everybody looks away and we are people”, declared the migrants then. The diaspora of the homeless continued, and those who stayed in Badalona took refuge in other abandoned factory sites, such as those in the Antoni Bori streets and Alfons XIII.
The latter, the one on Avenida Alfons XIII, is already history. After two annulled eviction orders, the entity badalona received a new eviction notice, dated for the following day, Monday the 19th. “In Alfons XIII a floating population of about 40 people spent the night, at times of greatest influx. This Monday about 25 remained.” The eviction was articulated by judicial order and executed by the Mossos d’Esquadra. As confirmed by the Catalan police to EL PERIÓDICO, there was active resistance by those affected, although there were no arrests.
to the evicted they have not been offered any place to sleep. “The priority of this government is to ensure the well-being of the neighbors and not of the conflicting people,” municipal sources respond when asked if the municipal social services are taking care of those thirty people. Monday night was spent in the openin the nearby Carrasco i Formiguera square.
People evicted from the nau to the Progrés are on the street without sleeping. @rotrenado s’hi ha acostat.
Clearing alternate sense does not fix the problem. Human rights are the only guarantee of citizen security, not having malvivint people on the street or in the boat. pic.twitter.com/V7lvmpIblR
— Aïda Llauradó (@AidaLlaurado) June 19, 2023
They didn’t stay there long. Around noon on Tuesday, the Guàrdia Urbana threw them out of the square. From Badalona Acull they point out that some have moved to another occupied warehouse in the city, on Calle Antony Bori. Police sources consulted by EL PERIÓDICO indicate that, “although it is probable”, they cannot confirm it since there has been no search. However, they explain that on Wednesday morning “a dozen people were identified who were spending the night on the beach.” That these people have slept there confirms it Ferran Morenomember of the Badalona Acull entity: “I myself have gone to see them, personally”.
substandard housing and resignation
After the intervention of the Mossos d’Esquadra, the old warehouse was left deserted. Hours after the eviction, the building demolished to avoid a new occupation. The structure of the building, points out Ferran Moreno, “was very compromised, The septic tank did not work“. A fence that can’t stand up to gusts of wind now closes the perimeter of the place. When it stays up, you can read on it that the security of the enclosure is the responsibility of Securitas Direct. In any case, whoever wants to Entering you will only find rubble, ruins and some basic belongings.Inside, only the poster for a music festival denotes a minimal decorative intention on the part of the former inhabitants.
Even the haste of the eviction notice, which arrived from one day to the next, in the occupied warehouse they knew that the eviction would come sooner rather than later: “We couldn’t do anything elsethe situation in there had degraded a lot,” admits Moreno. Migrants “no longer reacted to ask for help, or to go to social services, nor did they ask for the vulnerability report. These are people who at the time should have started receiving psychological helpmany of them are in a very hard phase of resignation and frustrationwhich leads to abandonment“, says Moreno.
nuisance in the neighborhood
“The people who lived on this ship are conflicting and it was a long time ago they embittered the neighbors“, insist sources from the Badalona City Council. Carlos and Angels They live in a basement, right in front of the old evicted warehouse: “We have a good relationship with them, I myself have helped them with the scrap metal, one day I brought them kilos and kilos. They are good people, but it is true that they caused discomfort”, remember Carlos. “Lately, things were getting worse. They drank a lot, a lot, and made a lot of noise at night ―adds Ángeles―. It’s a shame, God knows what they had to go through to get here”.
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Both neighbors refer strong fights, which always began inside the warehouse, but ended up in the street at the wee hours of the morning. Sometimes, the worst part was taken by the furniture of a very close bar: “They sat at the tables on the terrace with cans of beer, they rolled it and ended up in their hands, knocking over the tables and chairs. To the poor girl They had it fried from the bar,” says this neighbor. Although this newspaper tried to confirm this point with the bar managers, they claimed not to understand the language.
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