Overview

• Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol warns a forced removal could disrupt treatment and increase epidemiological risk.
• The Catalan health department says protocols were followed and the patients have completed two weeks of therapy and are no longer considered contagious.
• Mayor Xavier García Albiol says the city received no official notification of the cases and will proceed with eviction if there are no active infections, otherwise he vows to confine the building with no entry or exit.
• The municipality estimates 400 to 500 people live in the former B-9 institute, occupied since June 2023 after other settlements were cleared.
• The city says it already has a court order to vacate the property and is coordinating the operation with state and regional authorities, while local media report one infected resident was fatally stabbed in late August.