LATEST NEWS Mon 3rd Dec

The center has been RESQUATTED # EnsQuedem # laREAnoCAU

Barcelona City Council has evicted the Autonomous Student Residences in the Raval barrio. ( Residencia de Estudiantes Autogestionada del Raval).

Communiqué of @el_lokal denouncing the #BrutalidadPolicial that has occurred today the people who were demonstrating against the eviction of @ la_REA_.PEPPER GAS and police charges of the riot police of Guardia Urbana de Barcelona:

Comunicado de @ el_lokal denunciando laque se han sufruido hoy las personas que se manifestaban en contra del desalojo de @ la_REA_. GAS PIMIENTA y cargas policiales de los antidisturbios de Guardia Urbana de Barcelona: http://ellokal.org/agr… # laREAnoCAU pic.twitter.com/iUtGoFVqYp 13 likes Un grup de persones s’han apropat a l’edifici per donar suport a la trentena de persones que resistien dins / Victor Serri At eight on Friday morning, agents of the Guardia Urbana city police began the operation to remove the 30 occupants who resisted inside the building. The council justifies the decision with the technical reports that warn about the architectural deficiencies of the block.

The REA assembly shows that it took into account the dangers and took precautions under the advice of architects in areas of the building. There was no immediate danger and the projected repairs were ‘to make future work less expensive’. In realty it is a politucal eviction against autonomous organisation.



The block, located in the Raval of Barcelona, ​​was until 2008 the headquarters of an adult school, but it was disused as a result of alleged damage to the structure and was occupied in March 2016





The eviction ​​began at around eight in the morning. First, with the arrival of agents to deliver the eviction order. Minutes later, the Guàrdia Urbana de Barcelona deployed their riot police against the group of people who sat in front of the building to support the thirty people resisting inside. During the morning, the city police evicted the occupants, who have been identified.

A statement from the group has detailed that the Self-Managed Student Residence was born a year and eight months ago “within the framework of the Direct Democracy Simulation campaign of the Anarchist Federation of Catalonia, which aimed to” demonstrate the effectiveness of the self-management as a way of combating the capitalist context.

“They explain that since they occupied the building it has worked, ensuring the right to housing for the students and carrying out activities in the neighborhood in the Social Center “.

The collective knew that the city wanted to evict them on June 14 and, according to them, “they have always hidden behind technical and architectural arguments the real political motivations that lead them to want to evict the REA”.



First RE-Occupation

The Eviction failed however as the building was immediately re-occupied. On Sunday came the second eviction, this time with extreme violence.

Anarco-Ecología and 8 others Retweeted ‏ @BCN_Anarchists [VERY URGENT] ⚠ we need, right now, in person support in @la_REA_ in Passatge Sant Bernat n ° 9, <M> Universitat L2 and L9. Support is asked for the compas that are inside!

“Thanks to some new information that has arrived, we are practically certain that the city council has the plan to demolish the building and that it will not be possible until a few months later. The building will be empty for a while in a neighborhood with a great problem with regard to housing, “says Cuadrado. From the REA, in addition, they say that the project is not over. In this sense, they have called this afternoon to everyone who wants to support the project. At the same time, they announced that they would seek a new space in the neighborhood to give continuity to the project.

LATEST NEWS Mon 3rd Dec

The center has been RESQUATTED again # EnsQuedem # laREAnoCAU

original en català

L’Ajuntament de Barcelona desallotja la Residència d’Estudiants Autogestionada del Raval