• City Hall.Albiol asks the judge to vacate the camping

  • Badalona: survivors of the fire hide in other squatted ships

The camp of the survivors of the fire in which four people died in a squatted ship in Badalona tries to last.

Some of those who live in tents after the incident have moved to the site where the charred building stood, which was demolished because it threatened to collapse.

With the movement they try to prevent the camp from being dismantled, moving it from the street to a private compound.

The owners of the destroyed property never denounced the squatting of the space.

For its part, the

Badalona City Council

assures that some campers have accepted the rehousing that it has offered them before the eviction that was expected in the next few hours.

Hours before the transfer, the Contentious Administrative Court 6 of Barcelona had authorized the forced eviction of the camping that had been installed in the street.

The magistrate has accepted the precautionary measure that the City Council headed by Mayor Xavier García Albiol (PP) has claimed this week.

The municipal government requested the dismantling after urging by notification on December 24 to the campers to leave on their own feet before Christmas morning the promenade where they had set up with tents more than two weeks ago.

The judge maintains that ending the settlement is of "an obvious public interest", due to the "altercations" between those who inhabit it, according to reports from the

Badalona

Urban Guard

.

Neighbors in the area have blamed late-night noise and inconvenience to the campers.

Most of them do not have a residence permit.

They beg that they be regularized in Spain to find employment and that the

Social Services

evaluate them to be able to access housing in exchange for the payment of a low-cost rent.

In turn, the judicial order frames the eviction in the "need to ensure the life and integrity" of the campers against the risk of contagion from the coronavirus.

The judge also points out that those who have populated the camp "do not accept the housing and other solutions" that the City Council offered after the fire.

The Consistory records that

93 of the 156 people

treated after the accident agreed to stay in pensions for an indefinite period, although Albiol warned that it would not be extended when the winter ends.

Those who refused to stay justified that the accommodation was temporary or that they had to travel far from where they are trying to earn a little income through work without a contract.

Many of them are

looking for scrap metal

.

Others express fear of being deported if identified, lacking proper documentation to stay in Spain.

Some claim not to have obtained it despite having been in the country for more than a decade.

Some of those affected by the fire have taken shelter in two other factories near the one that burned and which have also been squatted for years.

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