Catalonia: New Wave of Police fines on Housing Defense groups for trying to stop evictions

Por David Cobo Publicado el 2 Sep, 2021from Kaos en la Red shared with thanks translation TheFreeOnline

“We have received five fines today.” “We already have eighteen but we don’t know when it will stop.” “About twenty people have been fined for that eviction.” “At least forty more of us have been fined.”

These are phrases uttered by compas from four different housing groups in Barcelona to explain the outbreak of administrative sanctions they are receiving. They are not the only ones.

The fines refer back to the end of last year and since then many evictions have been opposed with the same tactic- blocking access to bailiffs until dragged away by police.. And you get identified by the police, in the Spanish State it’s illegal to be without your National Identity Card.. and possibly fined or charged months or years later.

According to TOT Barcelona, ​​the administrative…