Desokupa removes “by its personal choice” its canvas in opposition to Sánchez hours after anti-eviction activists boycotted it

The extremely Desokupa group, devoted to forcibly expelling folks from houses, has determined to take away the canvas in opposition to Pedro Sánchez that it positioned this week on Atocha road in Madrid. On it you possibly can learn “You to Morocco, Desokupa to Moncloa”, on the face of the President of the Government.

It has been its founder, Daniel Esteve, who has introduced on his social networks that they’ll take away the canvas at six within the afternoon this Friday. A choice that comes only a few hours after anti-eviction activists coated it with different protest posters.

“After the most recent occasions, we imagine that each one limits have been exceeded and we are going to take away the canvas of our personal free will,” mentioned Daniel Esteve, founding father of the group in a video message posted on his social networks. “It’s not a defeat,” he assures emphatically.

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Earlier this week Desokupa hung a canvas in opposition to the President of the Government and different members of left-wing events resembling ERC or United We Can with the slogan: “We will miss you all” on Atocha road in Madrid.

⚠️ATTENTION ⚠️

DESOKUPA HAS DECIDED TO REMOVE THE CANVAS FROM CALLE ATOCHA 75

After the most recent occasions, we imagine that each one limits have been exceeded and we are going to take away the canvas of our personal free will right this moment at 6:00 p.m.

We hope we’ve not upset you.

THIS IS NOT A DEFEAT… pic.twitter.com/0wB5mBLOfn

— Dani Dsk (@daniesdsk) July 7, 2023

They additionally bragged on that canvas of forcibly evicting folks from houses they may not afford. This morning the Housing Movement of Madrid has boycotted the canvas displayed by the Desokupa platform by inserting a brand new poster calling for “free and high quality housing”.

“Neither rents, nor mortgages, nor money owed. Free, common, high quality housing and beneath employees’ management,” reads the brand new canvas displayed by this anti-eviction motion on prime of the Desokupa signal, at quantity 35 of the central road.

💣 BOYCOT THE DESOKUPA CANVAS

Faced with their threats and their violence, yesterday as right this moment, are the organized working class. We don’t surrender something, we wish every part: free, common and high quality housing. pic.twitter.com/7qTDVi5W5n

– Villalba Housing Assembly (@VillalbaViviend) July 7, 2023

The Desokupa banner had been added to the one which Vox positioned on the confluence of Goya and Alcalá streets in Madrid and that the Madrid Electoral Board pressured to withdraw. This identical afternoon, members of the Joventut Nacionalista de Catalunya (JNC) have positioned a banner on a flyover within the north of Madrid with a message of assist for former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who has simply misplaced parliamentary immunity by choice of the General Court of the European Union and will be made accessible to the Spanish Justice.

“We persist and we are going to win!”, is the message in Catalan that seems on the banner, together with a portrait of Puigdemont and the JNC has unfold on social networks. A former minister of the previous Catalan president, Josep Rull, has commented “In the guts of Madrid”.

The group of residents of the Atocha road constructing was going to cost 8,000 euros for having the Desokupa signal for 3 weeks.

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