Those accused of disobedience and coercion in the incidents that occurred during the eviction of the notepad Keychainssome of them belonging to the Endavant organization, integrated in the cupThey announced this Monday that they will not declare.
The Mossos d’Esquadra arrested last February four activists for the incidents that occurred during the eviction of a block of flats in the Barcelona neighborhood of Sec Townin May 2021, and were accused of the crimes of damage, attack on an agent of the authority, resistance and serious disobedience and coercion.
Subsequently, they extended the case to 18 more people -reaching a total of 22 accused– who have announced this Tuesday, at a press conference in Parliament, that they will not attend court appointments.
“Those responsible are the Mossos”
“Today we make public that we will not go to testify in court, and not only this, but we make it public that we go on the offensive and that we are the ones who we accuse the president of the Generalitat and the Government to open a political cause against all the women workers in this country”, said Axel, one of those charged for the eviction of the Llavors block.
On behalf of Alerta Solidària, Eva Poushas pointed out that “these 18 people have decided to plant the Spanish justice system” and “stand up to this repressive system”alleging that “his imputation is basically militancy” and that “those responsible are the Mossos d’Esquadra”.
For this reason, the legal commission of the Housing Congress -a group of entities and unions- has demanded that the Government “stop the repression, withdraw the fines and the causes and acquit the defendants“, as well as “guarantees the right to housing effectively, stopping all evictions“.
Precisely this Monday it has transpired that the Barcelona Court has ordered an investigation of the mayor of the city, Ada Colaufor the crimes of coercion and prevarication, by allegedly pressuring an investment fund -accused of being a vulture fund- Vauras Investments SLso that he could allocate real estate of his property to social rentalunder the “threat” of not granting building permits.
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In March 2020, the Barcelona Councilor for Housing, Lucia Martinanother of the defendants, had announced that the City Council would sanction Vauras Investments, with sanctions that could reach up to half a million euros, after the eviction of the Llavors bloc, owned by this fund.
The City Council concluded that Vauras Investments had committed six offenses for each of the six families in the block, located in the 38 Lleida streetwho had been evicted and to whom the fund had not offered a social rental.