Four silhouettes painted on the floor, four pairs of shoes, some blankets, candles and white flowers. Badalona paid tribute this Monday afternoon to . In an act of remembrance, but also of vindication, a hundred people convened by the Badalona Acull platform have demanded that the Government of (PP) reopen the municipal emergency shelter (Can Bofí Vell) that closed in the spring of 2024, and that has left the city with virtually no service to offer to people living rough.
“, a name, a life that deserved dignity (…) Some perhaps walked the same streets without imagining that they would end up living rough,” stated, in the reading of a brief manifesto, the actor Lluís Marco in front of the blackboards on which, along with the silhouettes drawn with white chalk and a blunt motto: “Living on the street kills”: Raúl, January 6; Luis, February 24; (unnamed), March 3; and Jordi, March 4. Little has emerged about those lives except in the last case: Jordi Fibla, deeply rooted in the center of Badalona, who due to various circumstances ended up sleeping in a public park where she died.
Marco has criticized that social services are “insufficient and non-existent” and has wondered if “the municipal government does everything that is necessary to have assistance resources” with which to “protect vulnerable people.” To the event, in which there was a minute of silence and the sound The song of the birdsvarious municipal representatives from left-wing parties have attended, but no one from the municipal government.
The Badalona Acull platform has criticized the lack of institutional recognition of the four deceased people. “We miss that the mourning has not been publicly expressed by the city council,” Marco reproached the hundred people who listened to him; some held in their hands.
