Overview
- Jaume Asens submitted the complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office’s Hate and Discrimination unit accusing Mayor Xavier García Albiol of crimes tied to the B9 clearance.
- He alleges four offenses—discriminatory denial of a public service, hate crime, disobedience to judicial authority, and administrative malfeasance—arguing the city failed to provide court‑required alternative lodging and left people on the street for days.
- The filing cites a recorded neighborhood meeting where explicit calls to assault or burn the Can Bofí Vell shelter were made and claims the mayor did not clearly disavow xenophobic remarks.
- Opposition parties PSC, ERC, Comuns and Guanyem condemned the mayor in a plenary session for a lack of humanity and mismanaging the social response, while Albiol says the eviction was lawful, not anti‑immigration, and is now working through inter‑administrative cooperation.
- Catalonia’s social rights chief reported 120 vulnerable evacuees have been rehomed and that 180 identified as vulnerable were offered emergency resources, while prosecutors consider the complaint and any investigation remains pending.