On the occasion of World Day of Refugees a Catalan hundred have come together to call a large demonstration in Barcelona under the slogan “Open Borders, want to host” . neighborhood, union, solidarity and host institutions want denucniar “irresponsibility, negligence and hostility of the political representatives of Spain and other European states to the exodus of displaced people seeking a safe place.” The protest is scheduled Sunday June 19 at 18pm in the Plaza Universida t.
external and internal borders
“ The Mediterranean has become a mass grave to European states impede freedom of movement and do not want to apply the legal access routes and safe that already exist. The EU and Member States are complicit in the deaths in the Mediterranean “has denounced Toni Borrell, the platform Stop Mother Mortum .” The Spanish State is responsible in the southern border Ceuta and Melilla, the only EU on African soil, “he added, and has also criticized the” internal borders “as the immigration detention (CIES). Precisely The Spanish government has announced the reopening of CIES Zona Franca next Thursday , a decision that, as recalled Borrell “goes against the will of civil society and institutions Catalan “.
“We want to denounce that European governments and the EU are violating the Geneva Convention and their own asylum laws. people die in the Mediterranean for governments to violate the law “said Miguel Pajares, president of the Catalan Commission for Refugee Aid , and added, “now that there is public awareness is the time to do a mass demonstration to show the rejection of society policies contrary to human rights such as the right of asylum “.
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the entities want to emphasize through this manifestation, its solidarity with the peoples suffering war: “the Syrian people are suffering a civil war since 5 years and European response has been irresponsible ei unworthy of countries where human rights are claimed “said Jose Luis del Alcázar, the Committee of Solidarity with the Syrian People. “also remember that there are more than 8 million internal refugees in Syria and denounce the cruelty of the regime, Russia, US and Daesh against the Syrian people,” he said.
Historical memory
A situation not ignore the Catalans themselves, as recalled Natalia Esteban, vice president of the Catalan National Assembly: “the Catalan people are a people of Mediterranean roots that has been built with migration. We are a society that has also suffered exile in refugee camps, “and added,” Catalonia wants to speak with its own voice in Europe and in the world to defend respect for human rights “.
eviction of Eko
In the news this morning of the eviction of informal field Eko station near Idomeneo, Greece, Marta Llopart, volunteer Catalan Brigades , explained that have driven the volunteers to the force when they were saying goodbye to refugees. The eviction started at 5 am. “They want invisibilizar taking them to military camps where they live in appalling conditions” , adding “We see citizenship first and second, which can come from tourism in Barcelona and who died at the European borders. ”
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