Overview
- Barcelona’s provincial prosecutor, through its Hate and Discrimination unit, has launched investigative proceedings into Mayor Xavier García Albiol following a complaint filed by eurodeputy Jaume Asens.
- The complaint alleges possible denial of public service for discriminatory reasons, a hate crime, disobedience to judicial authority, and administrative prevarication tied to the December 17 operation.
- Investigative steps include requisitions to the City Council, requests for Social Services reports on post-eviction actions, and the summoning of a La Directa journalist as a witness.
- Municipal sources assert the operation strictly followed the court’s resolution, citing a team of ten social workers on site and about 50 people who requested assistance during the clearance.
- The eviction of the former B9 institute displaced roughly 400 migrants, and in December the prosecutor also asked the authorizing court to urgently verify whether adequate attention and housing alternatives were provided as ordered.