Suspend a Sant Jordi it’s complicated and very, very unpopular. Changing it to the day is not convincing either because who knows if people will respond and you will not end up losing money. Relocating it to a covered site breaks with the tradition of crowded streets; the city will not end up looking like a party and, make no mistake, it would not be the same. Still, one of these three should have been the decision that should have been made last week, days before the disaster.
It is easy to say this in the past, yes: these are not things that can be decided from one day to the next and, with the weather forecast, you already know: you never know.
What nothing was done, wow, and that on Friday night, the slogan was: go ahead with everything, let’s cross our fingers and we’ll see. And what was seen, apart from a citizenry focused on buying books (what a strong tradition), is that booksellers, publishers and sellers of roses, that day, we were in the fucking street, totally unprotected.
There was no insurance, there was no plan b; for not having (and this is very serious), there was not even a plan with the emergency exits marked; no risk prevention briefing, no mass evacuation plan.
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JanPasseig de Gràciaall drenched, with the stop destroyed, a few, after speaking with those responsible for our section and listening to how they told us that we could not go out until nine, but that we could do what we wanted, that if the van managed to pass, they would not say anything, we discovered that you could enter through Rosselló, against the direction, because there were no police. And that’s what we did. In Plaça Reial they had to dismantle the stalls to remove them (hundreds of books, the tables, the awnings that remained) freehand among all the people they could gather.
Something much bigger could have happened. There are those responsible for all this who should begin to take charge of the disaster.