• Events: Looting of shops and burning barricades on the fifth night of riots in Barcelona

The serious riots in Barcelona of the last two nights, in which commercial and restaurant establishments have been attacked and looted, has provoked a harsh reaction from sector entities and employers such as Foment del Treball.

"These acts that destroy Barcelona and Catalonia are already well

. The lamentable image that we give with these disturbances that have a single direction is not presentable: The destruction of the welfare state", said the president of Foment del Treball, Josep Sánchez Llibre, who considered that violence goes "beyond negative economic repercussions, affecting professionals, neighbors or private property."

That is why he called for "

responsibility

" to the representatives of the Generalitat and the Barcelona City Council so that the situation "does not repeat itself" when crossing a "red line".

"We defend the interests of the business community and neighbors disturbed by these vandalism and radical attacks," said Sánchez LLibre.

Foment del Treball, together with representatives of more than 35 entities and business organizations from the tourist, commercial, restaurant or hotel sectors in Catalonia, which account

for 23% of GDP and generate 450,000 jobs

, have wanted to "condemn acts of vandalism without precedents "in recent days and have demanded political responsibilities from the Generalitat and the City Council.

In addition, they attacked the "irresponsible" who "hide their hands while others throw stones" and directly blamed the Generalitat for not giving "institutional support" to the Mossos d'Esquadra, who must ensure public safety and who have acted "with a hand behind their back and they have not been able to do a more efficient and effective job. "

Sánchez Llibre attacked politicians who justify that "burning a container, throwing objects at the police or looting shops" are violence as well as "the irresponsible who close their eyes or wash their hands" in the face of these disturbances.

In this sense, both

JxCat

and

ERC

, the two formations in the Government, have charged more against the police action than against the vandals in a political operation calculated not to anger the

CUP

, who encourage protests over Hasel's prison, within the negotiations to form a government in Catalonia.

Thus, in social networks, people linked to these parties censored the actions of the Mossos last night by dispersing protesters in the Gràcia neighborhood after encapsulating them rather than the harsh images of looted shops.

Yesterday's attack on the headquarters of an institution like the Barcelona Stock ExchangeFelipe DanaAP

Sánchez Llibre remarked that there are "irresponsible people who deny support and material and personal means to the Mossos that ensure security" for which they asked the "maximum forcefulness" of the Generalitat and Barcelona City Council to facilitate police work.

For this reason, they consider that the Government has the "obligation to ensure public and private goods and not abdicate one of the functions of those who have authority".

Foment del Treball and the rest of business entities and organizations pointed out that the disturbances

"greatly aggravate the deterioration of the image of Barcelona and Catalonia for investors

" and called for the "direct application of the law" to those directly responsible for the destruction and looting , in addition to making parents ugly, since many detainees are minors, that they are "irresponsible" allowing their children to participate in "destruction, assault and robbery" that can "compromise their future", especially in a situation of economic and social crisis for the pandemic.

Thus the businessmen do not rule out claiming civil liabilities from the parents of those arrested for the riots.

"Defending freedom of expression and demonstration does not justify acts of vandalism and looting of shops, institutions or urban furniture," said the president of Foment.

According to the businessmen, the damages this Saturday amount to 750,000 euros with a dozen shops looted and more than 75 establishments with smashed sideboards

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