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The Barcelona City Council has entrusted the attention to protesters and neighbors affected by the violent actions, which occurred in the city after knowing the convictions of leaders of the process , a critical group with the operation in which the National Police and the Mossos d ' Esquadra collaborate to quell the altercations.

The municipal government of commons and socialists headed by Mayor Ada Colau has granted 9,700 euros this week to the Irídia Center to provide psychosocial assistance and legal advice to "all people injured or affected by police charges or related stress, anxiety or distress to situations of tension within the framework of the exercise of the right to protest, "the Consistory reported.

This is the same group that on Sunday condemned for "disproportionate" interventions by the State Security Forces and Bodies in Barcelona and claimed the resignation of the Interior Minister, Miquel Buch . Through social networks, Irídia offers herself free of charge to protesters detained and injured in the riots to denounce "police violence" that she reproaches both the National Police and the Mossos. Irídia acts as an indictment, as well as the city council, in the cases opened in court against some police officers for charges during the 1-O.

Together with the association Stop Balas de Goma, Irídia urged the acting Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, to "stop using the rubber bullets in Catalonia from now on," appealing that "at least five people have suffered serious injuries "from those projectiles this week.

The Parliament prohibits since 2014 using them to the Mossos d'Esquadra, which have replaced them with prototypes made of a foam called foam . Irídia, who speaks of a "repressive wave" launched by police forces, also asks that the regional police do not fire foam bullets at the head.

The Consistory explains that the 9,700 euros are specified in the transfer of a space in some municipal offices and in "support to the psychosocial care and legal advice teams" of the entity, and emphasizes that the aid provided through Irídia until On October 31, it is not limited only to those injured by the actions of the Security Forces.

In any case, Irídia has not referred in recent days to the material damage caused by the action of radicals, such as wrecked cars or burned street furniture - "an eye or a life is worth more than a container," says a communiqué-, and has focused its attention on the alleged police excesses.

"The agents are acting in a totally uncontrolled way and moved by the intent to punish and humiliate," he has accused on social networks, and urges Interior to file and remove some agents from functions. On a video in which you can see several mossos surrounding a young man on the ground and hitting him with the baton, he affirms that "they are aggressions that only seek to scare and that threaten the moral integrity of people."

On the other hand, Colau has assured that the city council will claim damages through civil damage due to the damage, which amounts to more than two million euros. Citizens and the Restoration Guild of Barcelona had demanded that he go further and that the Consistory be personified as a private accusation against the detainees.

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