The group that previously squatted Ca la Trava and Ka la Kastanya denounces that the police operation that tried to evict the social center on Carrer d’Asturies was carried out without a court order.
At 7 a.m. on Wednesday, the Mossos d’Esquadra, made up of riot vans, occupied the Gràcia district of Barcelona. The objective was to evict Ca l’Espina, a squatted social center located at number 12 Asturias Street. “The police vans went from Fontana to Lesseps,” explains the group that occupied the building in January 2020. “There has been a totally disproportionate militarization of the neighborhood,” they add.
The apartment block in the centre of the city is made up of four floors of housing and a room on the ground floor. When the members of the project learned that the police wanted to break into Ca l’Espina, they blocked the access that goes from the premises to the houses in which about fifteen people live today. [Read More]