The Barcelona City Council hired manteros to carry out security surveillance tasks. It happened in 2017, when Ada Colau ruled the city alone after breaking his pact with the PSC for the support of the Socialists to the application of 155.

The Consistory of Barcelona awarded the "surveillance support services" of the Christmas fair organized annually in the central square of Catalonia to DiomCoop SCCL, the street vendor cooperative that the Colau Executive himself promoted in March 2017 to offer work trips to foreigners who make the illegal sale of counterfeit products on the streets of Barcelona their way of life.

The Consistory paid to the cooperative of manteros 17,850 euros (21,599 with VAT) on January 29, 2018, through the Presidency and Economy Management, as stated in the invoice issued by DiomCoop SCCL and to which EL MUNDO has had access. Being a minor contract - lower than 17,999 euros without VAT for the supply of services - the award was direct, that is to say by finger .

In 2018, the manteros cooperative was once again hired by the Barcelona City Council to provide its services at the Fair of Responsible Consumption and Social and Solidarity Economy, the name by which the Government of Colau baptized the alternative Christmas fair that it implemented in the center of the city with its arrival at the Mayor's Office. On this second occasion, the Consistory of Barcelona hired DiomCoop SCCL to carry out “infrastructure support services” of the Christmas fair, as stated in the concept of the invoice, which amounts to 6,611 euros, was also awarded by finger and paid on December 24, 2018.

According to the City Council, in the 2018 edition, the manteros cooperative was hired to carry out “opening and closing” services of the fair's infrastructure, as well as its “assembly and maintenance”, with the monitoring tasks in the Barna Porters Seguretat SL.

The manteros cooperative promoted by the Barcelona City Council received 364,468 euros between January 1, 2018 and January 1, 2019 through eight awards, including the two related to the Christmas fair.

The return of the PSC to the Government of Barcelona, ​​after the elections of 26-M, meant a radical change in the relationship between the City Council and the manteros. The Councilor for Security, Albert Batlle, - framed in the socialist candidacy - promoted a powerful operation to try to eradicate the top blanket of the city. During the summer, the City Council and the Generalitat dedicated a hundred agents a day to fight against the illegal sale of products, which causes 65 million annual losses to the Barcelona trade, according to a study by the employers' association of small and medium-sized merchants, PIMEC.

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