Cultural Marathon and Night camping
Dozens of neighbors have concentrated this Thursday to the Orsola house in Barcelona and have called to avoid Friday the planned eviction of the first neighbor of the farm, urged by the investment fund that bought the property. A cultural marathon has been held and a night camp has been summoned.
The journalists Laura Grau, João França, Ana Polo and Alba Riera are responsible for conducting the event, which has the collaboration of other communicators such as Mònica Terribas, Jordi Évole or the comedian Joel Díaz. The group of teachers who have organized against evictions have also intervened for the dire consequences it has in students. The marathon, which will be extended until 23:00.
The Orsola house, in the Eixample Barcelona, has become a symbol of the housing crisis after several years of resistance from the tenants that the property wants to throw. His fight echoed in the last gala of the Gaudí Awards, when some actors such as Enric Aquer would encourage citizens to participate in the mobilization planned for this Friday to avoid eviction.
“Tomorrow will be a day of putting the body, a day of struggle and resistance. We will not make it easy for those who want to throw us out of our cities and the vulture funds that make the houses of the people a business ”, has proclaimed from the balcony of the Orsola Marta Espriu, spokesman for the congréss d'Alpitatge de Catalunya, the space that brings together the different movements for the right to housing in the community.
Orsola is a farm located at number 137 of Calàbria Street acquired in October 2021 by the Lionss Investment Investment Investment Fund, which the next month began to notify the neighbors for whom the contract that they had to leave Your homes. After several concentrations and failed negotiation attempts, five of the residents of the ORSOLA have defeated the contract, and two have been sued by the property to evict them.
Josep Torrent, after 22 years of tenant in the Orsola, is the first neighbor to which the Mossos d'Esquadra is expected to expel in an eviction scheduled for 10h. This Friday. In a letter sent this week to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez; The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, and the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, advanced his intention to resist his eviction when considering it unfair.
In parallel to the neighborhood mobilization, the Barcelona City Council has called, less than 24 hours of the expected eviction, a negotiation in extremis That stops the eviction, something that has already been tried several times, but it has encountered the refusal of the Orsola owner, recalled the tenant union. On the other hand, Lions has denounced the “growing legal insecurity that housing owners faced” and has loaded against the union for “promoting occupation and defamation practices.”
