The popular festivals of La Mercè have been the last pretext for vandalism organized to turn Barcelona, with the collaboration of the city council, into a hell. The massive bottles on Saturday, with more than 40,000 people, left Friday’s concentrations a joke, and the illegal crowds (which still cause fright in the final stage of the pandemic) came from the hand of acts of street terrorism that will undoubtedly have a high economic and media cost for the Catalan capital.
Overwhelmed, the Guàrdia Urbana had to deal with dozens of violent groups that attacked facilities and police cars, which sparked mass battles with a balance of 43 wounded (13 of them by stab weapons) and which looted numerous family businesses, proving that they were moved organizations for the contempt for authority and enemies of social and economic prosperity.
These events give a good account of the fact that administrations, in the wrong hands, are capable of degrading cities as safe, cosmopolitan and at the forefront as Barcelona to the extreme. The mayor Ada Colau acknowledged that there is “a problem of public order,” but it is clear that the reading falls short of a public safety problem that threatens to escalate.
Barcelona, unfortunately, has accustomed us to these orgiastic episodes of violence and agrees with us in our fear that, with the new century, it has gone from being the best city in Spain to a national reason for anxiety. A city overcome by insecurity and barbarism.
Deterrent message
Barcelona lives haunted by the demons invoked from the institutions. They have been too many years of relativization of the destructive potential of the radical left and the independence movement, of a constant and irresponsible trivialization of violence, and of the celebration from the power of “disobedience.”
Now we are beginning to see the results of this frivolous policy that spurs, by action and omission, a perverse spiral that tarnishes the image of the city, clouds the coexistence of citizens and spreads both insecurity and feelings of insecurity.
The economic blow, in addition, threatens to go beyond the millionaire damages caused by material destruction. The example of the assault on the Fira is particularly symbolic and sends a devastating and dissuasive message not only to foreign investors and the protagonists of the Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest mobile fair, but also to the millions of tourists who enrich the city every year. economy of the city.
More height
Barcelona, in short, is no longer what it used to be. There is less and less of the European oasis that it was during the Franco regime, of the standard bearer of innovation, culture and economic prosperity that it was in the seventies and eighties, or of the headquarters in 1992 of one of the best Olympic Games ever. remember. Barcelona has been swept away by a decadence that has the signature of nationalism and populism of everything at a hundred, and that contrasts with the open, plural and sure Madrid that has taken over.
The doors to the world that the Olympic Games opened are the same that the populist drift closed. It is discouraging to see what Barcelona has become, and it is clearly intolerable that episodes of looting, violence and anarchy continue to occur as a custom in its streets. These are extremely serious events that the City Council and the Generalitat have to nip in the bud. Citizens deserve taller rulers who will restore splendor to the city and end this festival of infamy.
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