2024-07-06 12:18:13
Two sisters, aged 54 and 64, took their own lives on Monday in the Barcelona district of Sant Andreu, just hours before they could leave the house they had lived in for most of their lives. .
They owe more than €9,000 in rent after stopping monthly payments in March 2021. It has since emerged that their mother contracted Covid-19 and died that month, reportedly leaving the sisters left without any financial resources.
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Some 300 people gathered in Barcelona on Tuesday in protest against the double suicide, with organizers saying “these are not killers, they are murders”.
“They’re not killers, they’re murders.” Hundreds of people protested in Barcelona after two sisters killed themselves before they could leave their home and observed a moment of silence. pic.twitter.com/0EaNcZNoEa
– Europa Press (@europapress) July 3, 2024
Another resident of Catalonia, Alex (70), took his own life this year in the city of Sabadell earlier in 2024.
For the mayor of Barcelona Jaume Colboni, the suicide of the sisters represents “the most difficult and the most surprising part” of the housing access problems in Barcelona.
The Spanish Parliament recently approved a moratorium on deportations (evictions in Spanish) of vulnerable families until 2028, but somehow the sisters of Sant Andreu, known among the neighbors for leading a private life, fell through the cracks.
Their tragic deaths show how not all people who fail to pay their rent in Spain are squatters (busy) that is capitalizing on the system’s loopholes.
The lines are indeed, and in the current situation of increased rents and the great lack of social housing in Spain, there are many people who are struggling and simply cannot afford their rent or mortgages, instead choosing to don’t pay
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In other news, the animal rights groups PETA and AnimaNaturalis on Friday held a protest in Pamplona against the “central cruelty” of San Fermín running the bull festival, which starts on Saturday.
Around fifty activists wearing horns on their heads and middle products on their shoulders walked through the streets of the Navarran city to demonstrate their protest.
🔴 Today, activists from @ AnimaNaturalis y @PETAUKwe made an extraordinary protest in Pamplona 🇪🇸 to demand some #Sanfermines without cruelty or torture.
Abolition! 🐃✊️ pic.twitter.com/b8rx3JAQkm
– AnimaNaturalis (@AnimaNaturalis) July 5, 2024
Their messages show that not everyone in Spain (and certainly even less abroad) is in favor of the event of the bull, which includes both bull runs and bull fights.
According to AnimaNaturalis, some 17,000 local festivals in Spain involve some form of animal cruelty.
In their eyes, San Fermín, an event that is known around the world, causes the misbehavior of animals.
The question of whether such celebrations are “ritual” or “punishment” is not new, and yet not much has been done in modern Spain to bring these practices into line with progressive government policies.
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Ask any Pamplonika (district of Pamplona) if they think they are the bull runs (Bull runs) is cruel and they can deny it, because not only have they grown up with the running of the bull, they will argue that the animal is not physically harmed.
Animal activists on the other hand will point out that bulls can feel claustrophobiafear and panic when running down narrow streets surrounded by hundreds of people.
Whatever one looks at, there is clearly a need for consensus, and for at least “traditions” that clearly cause animal pain and/or death to be banned.
Take Toro de La Vega, who saw a whole town chasing a bull with a spear to stab it to death; The barbaric practice was banned in 2022.
The mother of all taboos is of course bullfighting itself, something as stereotypically Spanish as it gets, but tied to the fabric of certain corners of Spanish society that many politicians feel the need to tread carefully when they speak on the subject – the word.
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