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Containers, street furniture, vehicles ... the costs of riots in Barcelona begin to accumulate. The bill grows as the nights of flames or sabotage on roads and train tracks progress. The City Council of Barcelona has already estimated in more than 1.5 million the cost that violence has left. 865,000 only in the 700 containers that have burned . And the thing can go to more. This, who pays it?

Despite what most people may think, the bill to fix all these damages will not leave the municipal or state coffers. It will come out of the pocket of all citizens who have contracted insurance, whether car, home or life.

The Insurance Compensation Consortium will be responsible for covering the final invoice of the violent reaction to the judgment of the process . This public company draws on private funds. All the insurances that are signed in our country have a small surcharge that serves to provide the Consortium economically, which acts in those cases, such as this or in natural disasters, which are outside the usual coverage of the policies.

The Consortium is integrated in the Ministry of Economy and will assume, after an expert opinion, the compensation to the injured parties. It covers, according to its statutes, all those eventualities caused by "violently due to terrorism, riot or popular tumult, rebellion and sedition and the facts or actions of the Armed Forces or the Security Forces and Bodies in peacetime."

The bill, for now, does not seem to stop growing. The Barcelona City Council has just updated it and has quantified the cost necessary to repair damage to containers, street furniture, pavement, the service of public bicycles and others after three nights of altercations amounts to 1,575,000 euros, waiting to encrypt all the costs of the incidents last night. 700 containers have burned this week in the city; 60 were burned last night and it will cost 65,000 euros to replace them.

Not only the destroyed material has a cost, of course. According to the consistorial part, the Firemen provided 76 services last night and 40 cleaning teams with 100 workers were activated in the downtown area of ​​Barcelona affected by the altercations.

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Direct witness The sisters of Carles Puigdemont lead protest marches for the 'procés' sentence

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