Victims: a fourth body located
Event: A fire in an industrial warehouse leaves at least three dead
A
Ismael
call
El Pirata
.
He's Malian and the only thing in his shack that looks like loot is the cans he trades at the junkyard.
"They give me five, ten euros ... They are 46 cents per kilo", rate.
He lives in a barrack inside a textile factory that collapsed in
Badalona
.
The hovel is distinguished by the banner of the skull and the two tibias.
Ismael shares it with a survivor of the tragedy of the squatted ship located half a kilometer away, devastated by fire from which dozens of people fled.
"He jumped out the window and his leg hurts. I give him massages.
He is afraid to go to the hospital,
" reveals Ismael, who tried to cross the flames to rescue victims.
A policeman beat him to dissuade him: "All of us from the factory went to help. We were not going to watch our brothers die."
The misery of the sub-Saharan Africans who crowded into the building has been exposed with the accident, which adds four deaths after the body located yesterday.
Many do not have a residence permit, registration and health card.
The fear of deportation once identified outweighs the pain of bruising and the grief of losing everything.
"That one has been left without a house. With nothing," Ismael points out to a young man who is dragging a car near the abandoned company, taken a few years ago.
The
City Council
has not fined the owner, although it affirms that it examines that and two other ships squatted in the environment.
The mayor, Xavier García Albiol, was outraged that not all the 81 survivors who requested help accepted the food and accommodation that the Consistory pays for.
About fifty have accepted them.
"They are afraid because they lack papers. How are they going to go somewhere? So that the police can catch them and take them to their country?" Ismael replied.
Bary
, Guinean and undocumented, lives with two boys in another shack.
"There are people who have come from the burned ship who have injuries. They do not want to be identified so that they are not fired for not having papers," abounds the young man, who stayed for a couple of months in the burned-out building: "
I went to the to get to Barcelona
. It was full. There was no room, I only had a mattress ".
Bary confesses worried that the accident will be repeated in the workshop, where
the water and the current are punctured
.
"Those who live upstairs have been without electricity for a couple of days. There is no security," he feels.
"The fire was foreseeable. They have been victims of living without measures, without papers, without a home ... It was like here, with cables everywhere. At any moment a spark can jump," warns a Cameroonian, who tells how he lost his floor and his guard post.
He agrees with others consulted in that the
disagreements between the nationalities
that mingled in the farm spoiled the atmosphere: "If it was not a fire, it would be a knife, a fight, a death ...".
"Here there are Spaniards, Latinos, Chinese, Africans ... It is international. We live in peace," says
Mustafá
, who estimates that "more than 80 people coexist in the twin ship to the burned one."
Show some loaned mattresses to those affected.
"In the morning they leave so as not to accumulate here. Now there are many nerves," he admits.
Camped
Halfway between the two assaulted buildings, more than twenty survivors have settled in
tents
.
Albiol warns that they cannot camp and stresses that it has been offered to extend the temporary accommodation for a couple of months.
Some of the campers.
A. MORENO
"They only offered a hostel in Barcelona and at six in the morning they put us out on the street. To come on foot from there, we stayed in Badalona",
Cristina
justifies
.
He settled on the ship with his partner, who saved several.
Now sleep in the open.
"He has a huge burn and has not gone to the hospital. The last time he was charged 280 euros. And many jumped off the roof and now they are limping. He does not have a health card," explains Cristina.
The panic of expulsion is compounded by the disgrace for those who their relatives in Africa have recognized them in the images of the catastrophe.
They had hidden from them that they live poorly in Europe
.
"They prefer to send 200 euros rather than pay for a room. And so they support the lie," says
Gabi Morales
, from
Papeles para Todos
.
"My family should never know how I live. My mother would cry," assumes Ismael, who transfers even just 20 euros every month to Mali.
The treasure
El Pirata
craves is one of the new, empty floors in front of the warehouse.
He points to the balcony where he wants to hang his flag: "Only four or five people live. As they are worth money, they don't want us to live there. They prefer that we burn ourselves and die."
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