Friday 27 May 2011

Violent evictions in Barcelona and Lleida

Today police has violently evicted the squares taken in Lleida and Barcelona.

Regarding Barcelona:
This morning around 7:00 in the morning the Mossos d'Esquadra (the equivalent of the national police) and the Guardia Urbana (the equivalent of the city police) started surronding the square . Their first request were being given all the crystal bottles and the kitchen material which they started doing. After approximately one hour they started evicting the people without identification plates. Around 10:30 they started firing rubber bullets in an attempt to separate the people. Eventually more and more people has come to the square so police had to retreat being completely swamped by the amount of people there. In the end at least 87 campers were wounded and two detained.

According to the informations I got the reason behind this is that they expected violence since tomorrow Barça is playing a football match.

Some multimedia:
http://twitpic.com/536h4v
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acampadabcnfoto/5765018458/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acampadabcnfoto/5764476979/in/photostream/
http://twitpic.com/534ban
http://www.e-noticies.tv/canales/actualitat/fills-de-puta-fills-de-puta-12936.html
http://www.e-noticies.tv/canales/actualitat/a-bastonades-12937.html
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/05/26/barcelona/1306440444.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geg_6Xoy04s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzmTAQVXMqs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acampadabcnfoto/5764124105/in/photostream/
http://yfrog.com/h85iwkuj
http://twitpic.com/532eaq
http://www.designk.es/acampada/general/barcelona.php

Sources:
http://www.telesurtv.net/secciones/noticias/93398-NN/al-menos-87-heridos-deja-ataque-policial-contra-acampada-del-15-m-en-barcelona/



Regarding Lleida:
Around 7:30 operatives from the Mossos d'Esquadra (the equivalent of the national police) and the Guardia Urbana (the equivalent of the city police) have violently forced the eviction of the square even though the demonstrators have acted peacefully the whole time and opposed only non violent resistance. According to reports there have been various wounded campers and two detained ones.
The camps will try to concentrate again at 20 at Ricard Vinyes square.

On their behalf, the Government Representative on Lleida, Ramon Farré, has stated that the reason behind the policial actuation was public higiene. The city major, Àngel Ros, says undefined demonstrations cannot be tolerated and that there were salubrity and order reasons to act.

Some multimedia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz2W1IRjmcc
http://vimeo.com/24312440
http://vimeo.com/24315318
http://vimeo.com/24315994

Sources:
http://www.adn.es/local/lleida/20110527/NWS-0990-Lleida-detenidos-acampada-desalojo-libertad.html

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