“The legal framework that we have favors squats like those of Bonanova”

2023-05-10 19:06:08

Roberto García, spokesman for the CCOO of the Mossos d’Esquadra, has indicated in Más Vale Tarde that they have been “since last week” with concentrations to avoid the confrontations between the neighbors and the squatters of the houses el Kubo and la Ruïna in Plaza Bonanova (Barcelona). This week, when the Desokupa company announced that it was going to evict, it was when “the atmosphere has heated up more” and they have had to resort to more police presence.

Regarding crime, García has assured that “the squatting movement that we have here in Bonanova is not related or has never been related to the increase in crime”. “It is more related to the increase in insecurity, health and coexistence”, since they are people who “hold parties any night of the year until the wee hours of the morning”. “They are not stupefied and they do not care what the neighbors say. That is why it has caused the neighbors have lost their patiencehas assured the agent.

However, evicting these two houses is going to be difficult: “We think that this eviction is going to be just as difficult as the one in 2014. For this reason, when we saw that they were preparing, we decided to reverse the eviction to better prepare ourselves.” “The legal framework we have in Spain encourages this type of squatting,” García has concluded, noting that it is likely that they will occupy other things when they are evicted.