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Hung by a thread
The police evacuates a house occupied in the street of Alà Bei offing-hook to 5 young people suspended in the facade. The protest cut the traffic of Navy street all morning.
JORDI CORACHÃ?N BARCELONA
The squatters tried to avoid the evacuation, but they were only able to delay it. Five okupas were hung of the later facade of the building of the street Alà Bei, number 100, with the help of scaling cords.
There were a dozen of police vans and a concentration of support of 50 colleagues maintained closed to the traffic the street of Navy. During all the morning. They spent minutes of the 11 hours, when climbing police and a new ambulance arrived from the 061. Everything made foretell an immediate outcome. A brief, but energetic shower, delayed more than one hour the decision of the judge. "We have presented/displayed a resource, but they go it through the lining of the trousers", assured a young person, one of the 20 occupants of the property in discord.
Suddenly booings and shouts against the police took place. Two agents descended with cords and lugs until the height of one of you occupy them hung. It was an operation it jeopardize. The tile roof still dripped. There a blond boy began to give turns on itself as one spins, in the stop. One of the police removed a machete. It made the gesture want to cut the cord of the chaval. And this one, like no, surrendered. Other two police, located in a balcony, threw of him. Still it had time to make the sign of the victory before they placed the spouses to him.
He was arrested with the applause of the unconditional ones that observed the operation from the bridge of Navy. "They want to make cleaning because these houses are affected by the city-planning plan of the Fòrum", it maintained Albert, one of the most active leaders of that movement okupa. The Fòrum seems to be the guilty of all evils of Barcelona. Support of neighbors "the money who are spent in the Fòrum could spend it to it in houses for the young people and the old ones", assured a neighbor in number 104. An old woman emphasized that okupas did not cause any annoyance in the quarter. "With the problems that the city has and that has seizure with these youngs", she was sorry. Four women observed overwhelmed the spectacular police unfolding, but they did not blame to the Fòrum. "With all the delinquence that there are by the street and come to touch the noses to those boys", it commented one of them. It was the end of an evacuation with light and stenographers. And Peacefully.
Photo 1:Moment in which eight police participate in the evacuation, yesterday, of a house near the bridge of Navy. Photo: BERNAT ARMANGUÉ later
Photo 2:The facade of the building. Photo: FERRAN NADEU
Photo 3:Desokupación Police are arranged to cut the cords to which one of the boys was subject hung, before evacuating it. Photo: FERRAN NADEU
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National police concluded yesterday towards the 15,30 hours of the evacuation of a house occupied in Barcelona after a special group of climbers has descended to the five people who had hung themselves in the facade of the building to avoid their ousting.
Albert Martinez, a spokesman of the group okupa, explained that the penultimate one of the five young people who were offed-hook of the building was transferred the police station, although ignores if in lengthy quality of or being only identified, whereas sources of the National Police assured not to have certainty of this fact at the moment. The five activists of the movement okupa hung themselves of the facade of the building towards the ten in the morning of and remained yesterday there during near six hours subject with cords and material of scaling to avoid the evacuation of the property, in which a twenty lived on people. A special group of climbers of the national police went one by one offing-hook to okupas that they carried out the protest and the last one of them put its feet in the ground shortly before the three of afternoon. A hundred of people was concentrated to the doors of the building to express their support to okupas and pasacalles crossed the district in protest signal.
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