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On Thursday, November 26, at 12:00 in the morning, a press conference was held in the Plaza de la Glorieta in Murcia, in front of the City Hall, organized by the people evicted from the ruined building of San Pío X, the Platform of neighbors in support of these people and the ARRE Association.The place has not been chosen by chance: it has been located in front of the City Hall because answers are needed, answers that are promised and expected for a long time and that after the hasty eviction, without alternatives, ordered by the local government itself, are now more urgent than ever.
For this reason it has been made to coincide with the extraordinary plenary session in which the mayor and councilors met that same morning."We are here in front of the City Hall because we have been waiting for you to come to where we are for a long time, but you have never arrived," one of the evicted people told the media, referring to the local government, "stop treating people like that, there are to be supportive to face difficult things like this.
" He had been taking refuge in the building for a year and a half.Some of his companions have been transferred to a hotel, although only until tomorrow, but he has been sleeping on the street since the eviction because, as he tells the media present, he understands that he must spend two days in a hotel and then be thrown out again.
to the street does not solve anything.From the Neighbors Support Platform, we have asked for a stable solution for these people, which allows them to find a dignified life and not repeat such dramatic scenes as those that occurred on the day of the eviction of the dilapidated building.
One of the neighbors tells the media that many of them had to leave their few belongings inside when they were walled up, with the devastating feeling of starting over from scratch and with nothing more than the clothes they were wearing.
When asked about the City Council's response, she points out that "this response is urgent, we still don't know anything, but tomorrow they will be on the street again." He also remembers that "there are about 26 people staying in the hotel, but there were more than fifty people staying in the building.
The rest are on the street.Not all the people who need it are being answered.
"A refugee who has been in Spain for seven years has also appeared before the media.
He tells us that he arrived as an asylum seeker, wanting to work and learn the language.
He signed up for a course, with some help that they gave him and that he has taken the opportunity to thank.
In January 2018, her daughter was born and the help stopped.
He tells how he has been pleading for that right for years without receiving an answer and how when he arrived in Murcia, without enough money to pay a rent, he ended up with his countrymen, in that abandoned building.
"Three days ago, when I arrived, the police were covering it up.
We are asking the government and mayor of Murcia to look at the pandemic and the situation.
Why are you doing this now, it's cold.
We are ashamed to be here, we want to be in front of the cameras in good condition.
When I had help I was studying,I wanted to learn the language to have a better job and a better life, like everyone else.
This happens to me and to my colleagues and brothers who lived there.
Now I'm in the street"."We are the same, we are brothers, we carry the same blood and sentiment.
We are the same, support us.
I ask the government and the mayor for your favor.
Give us where we can live, work, contribute.
Thank you very much."From the Support Platform for Neighbors, we ask for urgent and real responses to the situation of these people.
Social Services alleges that they lack time to be able to attend to them, despite being aware of the situation in which they have been for a long time and despite being the City Council itself that has precipitated the eviction without having a solution before for them.
This lack of coordination and responsibility is not being paid by the culprits, but by these people who, abandoned by the institutions, did the only thing they could do to survive: get together and put up a building that nobody wanted to endure the situation while they waited for those aid and promises that still do not come.
Many of them have a residence permit, they are included in asylum programs that are not fulfilled,they are even young people who when they reach the age of majority are expelled from reception centers, with a residence permit, but not a work permit.With this press conference, we have tried to reach out to solve the serious situation that is being experienced in our Region and appeal to our most supportive and humane side to, together, end this shameful injustice.Rifeño Refugees Association in Spain ARRE
Source: Asociación ARRE./ Foto: archivo
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