Barcelona, Spain | AFP |
The new mayor of Barcelona, the ‘indignant’ Ada Colau, participated Saturday in a demonstration demanding the closure of a detention center in their town where, according to NGOs, rights of illegal immigrants are being violated, found the AFP.
In a festive atmosphere with music and African dance, Colau, antidesahucios activist who on June 13 was inaugurated mayor, He concentrated with hundreds of people before the immigration detention of their city, with slogans like “Do not close our eyes, close our CIEs”.
Several NGOs, headed by SOS Racism Catalunya, denouncing ” rights violations continued to occur, “according to them, in this and other centers dependent country Interior Ministry -” abuse, administrative irregularities, abuses “- since he died in January 2012 in Barcelona a young Guinean, Idrissa Diallo , 20.
The defenders of human rights, calling for “the end of these Guantánamos”, accused the policemen guarding Diallo not help him, but the Spanish justice is not delivered to respect.
Colau, 41, and closed the first week in charge of the municipal administration that had started on Monday personally involved in halting the eviction of a family in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Barcelona .
Printing a new style to local politics, the mayor of the second largest city in Spain was seen riding the subway to City Hall, instead of in an official car.
Also Mayor ‘indignant’ of Madrid, the former Justice Manuela Carmena 71, he decided this week by public transport to move to his new job, while in Valencia (east), another new councilors left, Joan Ribó, did in bike.
Ribo, 67, said it will sell the luxury car shielded, high consumption, which used its predecessor, the conservative Rita Barbera.
inflicting a blow the Popular Party, the head of government Mariano Rajoy, various citizen platforms, involving, among others, members of the ‘outraged’, came to power in several Spanish cities after the municipal elections on May 24.
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