In the end, the mayoress and mayor Ada Colau got fed up, entered the rag and denounced the electoralist use that the extreme right and a good part of the right are making of the squat in Barcelona. The racist, sexist and xenophobic chants heard at the demonstration called last week by Desokupa in front of the squatted houses in Plaza Bonanova exhausted his patience.
“They have been insulting me for months and I have not responded to them so as not to give them relevance,” she said Wednesday at a campaign event in the Pla i Armengol gardens, counterattacking as the person in charge of the City Council and also as a candidate. But the raised fascist slogans are intolerable. The far right brought hundreds of people from across the state to stage a hate rally, inciting violence. We cannot allow this to happen." So, Colau explained, the Consistory already denounced those chants before the Hate Crimes Prosecutor's Office.
Ciudadanos, Valents and Vox are fighting to see who is considered the biggest scourge of the squatting, an issue that in their opinion is one of the main problems in the city today. The dispute is so fierce that squats with k, with a great ideological background, and also those of individuals with problems in accessing housing are already in the same bag.
But when it came to distributing blows among his adversaries, Colau focused on his former partner, the socialist Jaume Collboni, with whom he maintains a bitter duel for many undecided. The spectrum of Ciudadanos, Valents and Vox, on the other hand, is very far from his. “The occupation affects very few homes, and it hurts me that Collboni is playing along with the right,” he said, referring to the socialist's proposal to open an anti-occupation office, to attend to affected owners. And it also hurts me that Collboni does not remember what the municipal government of which he was a part of before surrendering to the campaign, like the municipal anti-eviction unit, which studies each case, does.
And very close to Colau's lectern, half a dozen mossos. One says on the radio that they are required in the possible presence of groups opposed to the political act in progress. Perhaps the agent is talking about the squatters from the old Massana del Raval school, who lately have boycotted many of the BComú electoral meetings. The Colau government told them that it would give them the municipal offices that they took, but later they did not agree on the duration of this concession. Hence their protests. This Wednesday, however, they did not come.
