The city council has been won by ‘Barcelona in Common’ a radical new group stemming from the ‘Indignant’ occupiers, the feminist and the anti eviction movements.

Led by a young activist mother Ada Colau the activists have not yet been corrupted, promising like the Zapatistas to ‘govern obeying’, ordering police to stop evictions of mortgage defaulters, paralysing the plague of luxury hotel building and the rightwing liberal cuts offensive., etc.. and…

Barcelona City Council supports two Court Cases for crimes in the Civil War and Francoism

By Kaos The City Council will support institutional criminal complaints by Italian bombing of Barcelona during the Civil War and the alleged crimes committed by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The deputy mayor of Citizen Rights, Participation and Transparency, Jaume Asens, announced that the city of Barcelona will take part in the process of the criminal complaint filed in the Court of Barcelona by the anti-fascist association AltraItalia condemning the bombing of Barcelona they made the Italian troops between 1937 and 1939, in which nearly 5,000 people died.

“We are in times of bombings and we have to remember what happened in Barcelona. Time does not erase the responsibility for what has been committed, “Asens said at a press conference .

The Deputy Mayor also announced that the City Council has supported and studied the case filed in court number 1 Buenos Aires (Argentina) for genocide committed during the Franco regime and which has been admitted to be heard.

The lawsuit, which considers that this dictatorial regime was maintained by the armed forces, the oligarchy and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church during the next 40 years, also challenges the people Franco appointed to succeed him as the current authorities and representatives of the State.

Besides adhering to this cause, the city of Barcelona makes available to all citizens the opportunity to do so through a form which is accessible through its Office of Citizen Services and refers to the Buenos Aires court.

Jaume Asens has presented these measures accompanied by the president of the municipal group of ERC ( Republican Catalan Left), Alfred Bosch; President of the municipal group of CUP Canviem Barcelona (Radical Far left Occupy Party), ​​José María Lecha; Diego Arcos, representative of Argentina and Guido Ramellini complainant,and the Italian counterpart complainant.

In addition, as part of this committee, the majority municipal group Barcelona in Common, ​​has entered an Institutional Declaration, which has had the support of two-thirds of the council, where the procedure leading to the complaint will be supported and Barcelona City Council expresses the wish to urge the Italian government to formally apologize for the bombings carried out during the fascist regime of Mussolini on defenseless Catalan towns.



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Ayuntamiento de Barcelona apoya dos denuncias por delitos en la Guerra Civil y el Franquismo

Por Kaos. El Ayuntamiento de Barcelona apoyará institucionalmente las querellas criminales por los bombardeos italianos de Barcelona durante la Guerra Civil y por los presuntos delitos cometidos por la dictadura de Francisco Franco. El teniente de alcalde de Derechos de Ciudadanía, Participación y Transparencia, Jaume Asens, ha anunciado que el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona se persona en el […]