HIBAPRESS – Barcelona: Omar Razzini
In a painful humanitarian scene, the municipality of Badalona, a suburb of Barcelona, evacuated about 400 homes inhabited by people in a vulnerable situation, without providing housing alternatives or transferring the affected to available shelters.
The decision left hundreds of families and individuals facing the street directly, at a time when the city is experiencing rainy weather and severe cold. Local sources indicated that most of those affected have no immediate option, after the authorities refused to receive them in shelters, which means spending the night outdoors, without shelter or protection from the rain. Scenes of luggage piled on sidewalks, and children and women looking for a safe place, brought back to the forefront the question of human dignity and the limits of social responsibility of local institutions. Activists and human rights organizations expressed their deep concern about this step, considering that addressing the housing file cannot be done through forced evictions only, but through humanitarian solutions that take into account the conditions of vulnerable groups, especially in difficult climatic conditions. Between strict administrative decisions and a fragile social reality, hundreds of lives remain suspended awaiting urgent intervention that restores the right to a basic right: the right to a roof that protects from the rain… and preserves dignity.
