THE Mossos d’Esquadra They were deployed shortly before seven a.m. around the B9 institute of Badalona (Barcelona) and started the expulsion at the request of the contentious administrative court number 11 of Barcelona and at the request of the town hall.
The premises are the property of Badalona Town Hall and between 400 and 500 people have gathered there since 2023, although after the announcement of the expulsion there would be around 200 left, according to figures from social entities.
It was the municipality itself that requested the eviction for “health” problemsa request that has been dragging on for two years. In fact, two years ago they detected at least nine cases of tuberculosis in space.
The mayor of Badalona, the popular Xavier Garcia Albiolpublished a video of the operation with a multitude of police vans and several ambulances moving to the scene and accompanied it with a message: “As I promised, the expulsion of the 400 illegal squatters from the B9 in Badalona begins”.
The eviction is carried out in response to the request of the Badalona City Council to Mossos d’Esquadra, through a judicial resolution of the Contentious Administrative Court number 11 of Barcelona of December 12, “which authorizes the entry and execution of the Government Agreement of said City Council to recover the property”.
Municipal social services will be present during the operation to ensure assistance to disaster victims as well as members of the Servei d’Urgences Médiques (SEM).
Case of fights, thefts or drugs, took place during these years in the conflictual B9 institute of Badalona, in the Sant Roc neighborhood, where even this summer A fight ended with a dead man, so the Mossos opened an investigation into murder. The victim was stabbed several times on Alfons XII Street, in front of the building, and medical services were unable to save his life.
Already at that time, the estimate of the number of people living in poverty in the building had fallen to 300. The city’s mayor, Xavier García Albiol, then reported that they had been trying to leave the property for two years, but that it was a problem. “judicial test” and described space “time bomb”“.
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