The mayoress of Barcelona, Ada Colau, will testify earlier than the decide on March 13 for alleged prevarication, embezzlement and coercion of the Vauras funding fund to supply socially rented flats it owns –among them the Bloc Llavors– that have been occupied by weak households.
Colau introduced it at a press convention this Tuesday, wherein he reported that the Barcelona Court had summoned him to testify after reopening the case in April 2022, when he ordered an investigation of the mayoress after the case was dismissed by the decide for lack of proof.
The Court of Barcelona has additionally summoned the Councilor for Housing, Lucia Martín, the Councilor for Citizenship Rights, Marc Serra, and a municipal official to testify on March 10. The complainant is the Vauras funding fund, which accuses the Barcelona metropolis council of positions near the squatters, within the battle wherein the funding group maintained round a constructing squatted by weak households, the well-known Bloc Llavors within the Sants neighborhood.
The metropolis council urged to supply a social hire to the residents as mandated by the Catalan Housing Law, one thing to which Vauras refused and fined the fund for the refusal. Vauras sued in 2020 towards Colau and three different municipal officers from Barcelona en Comú for the squatting of eight houses often called Bloc Llavors, which is owned by the funding fund.
Vauras affirmed that the evictions had been suspended 4 occasions because of the violence of the squatter motion “with the help and connivance of the Barcelona City Council” and filed a criticism for coercion, extortion, prevarication, infidelity of public paperwork, bribery, affect peddling, Negotiations prohibited to public officers or usurpation of powers towards the town council.
The criticism was filed since neither the Prosecutor’s Office nor the investigating decide noticed a criminal offense within the municipal motion towards six weak households that occupied the property. Subsequently, the Court of Barcelona disagreed with the choice of the decide and the prosecutor and regarded that the battle must be investigated by way of prison proceedings. Of the eight denounced crimes, solely coercion and prevarication is admitted.