They will care for the 160 people sleeping at El Prat Airport.The Generalitat (Generalitat) and the city councils of El Prat and Barcelona are providing money and social support. This is good news, but the phenomenon is exploding. Every night, Barcelona is a vast open-air dormitory. Tents are set up near the Ciutadella fence. On Wednesday, as we were coming down from the Montjuïc stadium, people were already preparing for the bed on the mountainside. In the Eixample, any entrance to a facade, a shop door, or a garage door, any space under a balcony, is often a dormitory protected by a fence taken from the street and marked "Barcelona City Hall." It's even the home where dozens of people spend the day stretched out on a sleeping bag or a mattress as filthy as a fox, passing the hours, perhaps hoping no one will take their place, especially if there's a fountain nearby or the sun hits them in winter. Some haven't left the same streets for years, and you often see them huddled together, still as a statue in the first corner they find, their eyes closed, as if they've lost all contact with the outside world, despite being surrounded by millions of people.
Everyone ends up in cities, including those who rummage through dumpsters, those who empty trash cans in the wee hours of the morning to see if they can find something to eat, those who sit and wait for what falls at the door of a supermarket, or those who pass by with their scrap metal cart, or those who hide momentarily in the metro station manta, when the city is full of tourists and high season begins. This isn't just happening in Barcelona, but it's never been so widespread. Many people are expelled from the world.
