I died a couple suffocated while being scalped in a hut at Montcada i Reixac

Montcada i Reixac / BarcelonaHan tingut a death as silent as invisible will be the seva vida for the public administrations. Jéssica –the cognom has not transcended– and Munir Bakhatafdil are going to die asphyxiated by the smoke of a fire that had caught fire in a hut of the great settlement that is located on the banks of the Besòs river, at the municipal terme of Montcada i Reixac. At the same time, the sense of life is going to find the germ of the household, which is going to donate it to the police, in the face of the incredulity of the rest of the veins, that since there were no external remains, they do not have adonat the tragedy, the last of a long list of victims of the poor. In this misfortune there are absent victims, the fills, guardianships by the DGAIA "per hopelessness and not per indicators of poverty": the common fill, of two years and mig and who lived with a paternal aunt, and two more minors, d' a previous relationship of the donut, which have remained orfes. Cap dels morts was registered in this Vallesà municipality.

No one remembers when Bakhatafdil, 42 years old, and Jéssica, 40, will arrive in this settlement. Between five and six years, Rachid Bakhatafdil, the hometown's germà, ventures to direct a ferry transfer, who tells how the couple will arrive at the town when they go for a land that they occupy in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, the city Originally from the dona i lived in the common fill. “It was the first night that I went to the new barracks,” he explains. Bakhatafdil was very excited to be able to move, because he felt like leaving this inhospitable and impoverished area, because the road meant going from la llauna to maó. He will come to Spain to look for sort i ja veus quina sort ha trobat”, maleïa el germà.

A vein that is Diu Maria and that I prefer not to identify with the cognom, is different in praise cap a l'home, whom he described as a "good person, xerraire and hard worker". For months, she recounts, she will be posing totxanes to the new house, dins d' an enclosure tancat amb uralites and collected material from here and there. “I thought that there would be more local to keep the iron, that now I would have to have it in the van”, affirms the young Maria. The diumenge nefarious, the parella hauria fet foc in a llauna i, with which everyone was so well tancat to prevent the escalfor from escaping, s'haurien suffocated by smoke, according to the first hypotheses of the investigation.

Cap administració té proof of how many people lived in this informal settlement, which the mateixa mayoress of Montcada, Laura Campos, has qualified as a "favela in the metropolitan area". Alçat des de fa more than 30 years, has anat creixent to the owners of the Besòs, in parallel to the road of La Roca, the BV-5001, ends to arrive at the mig thousander of parcels to the llarg d'un kilometer. As there is no census, it is also disconnected when the barracks are used as a space for family sheds for weekenders or magatzems, desballestament i horts, and for residences –infrahabitatge in administrative language–, like that of the dead couple “Here they do not have vingut mai els serveis socials, only the police to notify us because they do not focs gaire alts. Això is the border”, is queixa la Maria.

The Bakhatafdil family –which will try to repatriate their home to Morocco– regrets that no s'hagi have contacted them after the deaths and corroborates that the victims have not claimed social assistance because they have not they trust that he is done. “Avui ens ha tocat a nosaltres, demà a qualsevol altre”, is what Leila Bakhatafdil, neboda of the victims, is angry about “the demagoguery” of the administrations that “now is mouen per les dues morts”.

Lack of coordination of the administrations

The dramatic incident has once again revealed not only this deficit in housing and the most extreme poverty, but the lack of institutional coordination, which is what, among other people, I didn't act. "We do not deny our responsibility, but we ask for help", explained the mayor Campos, since the social and environmental approach in this camp is unacceptable for the City Council. "Only the management of the waste produced by the firing of all the barracks would cost about three million euros", said with reference to the estimate of a joint project with the Consorci del Besòs, and I advise that the settlement is " a pressure cooker” that requires the commitment of all the administrations to make the lower part of Besòs an area similar to that of the Llobregat delta. "We are tired of being the door of the darrere of Barcelona."

The Department of Social Rights of the Generalitat has not identified the parella in the three active channels to detect sensible persons, and remember that, in all cases, the law of social services assenyala the municipal competence in this matter. Només is feia a follow-up of the child guardianships, but the couple, diuen, had not shown the will to recover the fills. In the next few weeks, the Government plans to approve the National Sensellarisme Plan, a long municipal demand –led by Barcelona– in order to provide Catalonia with a single strategy to involve all administrations –from local to supramunicipal to the Generalitat– i Simplify the detection circuits in order to have a real photograph of the people in infrahabitatges.

The case of Montcada is, for the Taula d'Entitats of the Third Social Sector, one more sign than cal facing a poor person every time more chronicled in Catalonia. "These tragedies are becoming recurring, and it is beginning to normalize that in our society succeed fets with these", they underlined in a communiqué in which they recall the death of four people from a family mateixa in the local fire I live in Plaça Tetuan in Barcelona.

"It only took 10 days to start 2022 with an other tragedy caused by the lack of access to a decent habitat", insist the entities, who live by the daily life of vulnerable people and the difficulties of "Access to a habitat in good conditions. "How many more deaths have I had-hi, why do you react to urgency?", questioned the administrations, which they demand to address the causes of funds: the infrahabitatge, energy poverty, labor precariousness, submerged economy or administrative irregularity.