But then they leave the building again, exactly as before, so the remaining squatters can continue doing business as usual (selling drugs, prostitution, stolen goods, scrap metal, etcetera). Every time there’s an incident, the police and the coroner enter the building to take care of paperwork, remove any corpses, and –if we’re lucky– perhaps make an arrest or two. Fights are an almost daily occurrence in and around the building, to say nothing of accumulations of garbage, death threats, human excrement, and rats the size of cats. ![]() There is also one reported case of a woman being raped. What is worse: the authorities are doing absolutely nothing about it, despite the fact that three persons have died within its walls: one was murdered, another died of a heroin overdose, and this past spring someone died of Covid-19 in the building. Since 2017, the entire five-story building at number 14 has been squatted and controlled by a violent gang, making life hell for neighbours over the past three years (I live only one street away). ![]() Welcome to Carrer Príncep de Viana in the Raval neighbourhood of Barcelona, a small, normally quiet street lined with trees and fine works of architecture such as this one, situated at number 14. Squatted building at Carrer del Príncep de Viana 14, in Barcelona’s Raval neighbourhood
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