Barça continues to advance towards winning La Liga F after a 6-0 thrashing of Badalona with goals from Salma Paralluelo from a penalty, Marta Torrejón, Sydney Schertenleib, Esmee Brugts, Mapi León, and Martine Fenger after a great start to the second half to seal the match. The Blaugranas could celebrate the title in a few weeks if they win at Espanyol's ground – time yet to be confirmed – or by default if Real Madrid does not earn three points against DUX Logroño.

The Badalona City Council has installed about twenty concrete blocks under the C-31 highway bridge, precisely where for a few days dozens of homeless people lived in tents, most of them from the former B9 Institute. On March 24, the council led by the popular Xavier García Albiol ordered the eviction of the settlement, justifying it as a temporary measure for the need to clean and sanitize the area, which had been occupied since the end of December last year. However, he stated that once the toxic effect of the products used had passed, it would be allowed to be occupied again. Now, however, a municipal brigade has completely blocked access to the site, which is being guarded by an Urban Guard patrol, according to ACN. lived in tents for days, most of them from the former B9 Institute. On March 24, the council led by the popular Xavier García Albiol ordered the eviction of the settlement, justifying it as a temporary measure for the need to clean and sanitize the area, occupied since the end of December last year. However, he stated that once the toxic effect of the products used had passed, it would be allowed to be occupied again. Now, however, a municipal brigade has completely blocked access to the site, which is being guarded by an Urban Guard patrol, according to ACN.

The Public Prosecutor's Office warned that the Badalona City Council failed to fulfill its obligation to provide emergency assistance to the homeless people it evicted from the former B9 high school. Specifically, it lacked a protocol for assisting the homeless through municipal services and also failed to apply the established methodology for such situations, which would have involved offering support to those affected, referring them to available residential resources, and providing follow-up care. In a document signed on March 10, the prosecutor warned the court that authorized the eviction that the council had not acted in accordance with its orders. When endorsing the eviction of the occupants of B9, the judge of the Administrative Court No. 11 of Barcelona specified that, given the vulnerable nature of the situation, it was necessary to take "the measures stipulated in the municipal services' protocol for assisting the homeless and provide them with emergency social assistance." Following this order, Following the eviction, the Public Prosecutor's Office asked the city council to clarify what measures it had taken to protect vulnerable people. who lived in building B9. The City Council's response, as described by the prosecutor, was "a report that essentially states that such a protocol is lacking." The council also pointed out that "they would not be obligated to do so under current legislation, but that they use a methodology for situations involving homelessness, social exclusion, and housing emergencies."

Dining chairs, mattresses of all sizes, old televisions, blankets, and clothes. All gone. In just over two hours, what had been going on for the last three months was home The area where people were evicted from the former Institut B9 has been completely emptied. The encampment, where dozens of people had gathered on Tuesday morning, was by midday back to being just a sidewalk under the C-31 bridge, with gleaming white bike lane lines and cobblestones shiny with cleaning product. "They told us we were leaving to clean it up, but I don't think we can come back," a young man repeated as he crossed the police tape with a rickety shopping cart in one hand and a suitcase overflowing with people in the other.

"We'll dream big until it's no longer possible." Banini's words in the pre-match press conference in Badalona will resonate even more strongly in the Badalona dressing room next week. Marc Ballester's team secured a draw against Barça after a defensive masterclass (0-0), and the Copa de la Reina semifinals will be decided next Wednesday, the 18th, at the Johan Cruyff Stadium (9 pm).

Five people living on the streets have died in Badalona this year. According to the Badalona Acull platform, which confirmed the information to ARA, the latest victim was a homeless man. Badalona DailyA 60-year-old man, a resident of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, was found dead on February 15th inside the car where he had been living in the Puigfred neighborhood. According to the platform, which brings together a dozen social organizations in Badalona, ​​the man had been living in a vehicle since December, parked at number 51 Otger Street, in the Puigfred neighborhood, near the Santa Coloma municipal boundary. The only information the city council, led by Mayor Xavier García Albiol, has provided about the case is that he lived in the neighborhood and that there was a restraining order against him from a woman residing in the city. This latest death brings the total to six, including Raúl, Luis, Jordi, and a fourth man who was also living on the streets but has not yet been identified. Just three days ago, the residents of Badalona remembered them in a tribute ceremony in the Plaza de la Vila, where they also took the opportunity to demand the reopening of the municipal shelter. Can Bofí Vell, which closed in April in 2024, leaving the 45 people who were staying there homeless and the city without any emergency residential services. Since then, six homeless people have died in Badalona.

Two years ago, Levante Badalona (now Badalona Women) arrived at the Badalona Municipal Stadium aiming for the top spots in Liga F. After narrowly avoiding relegation in the final weeks of the season, the Badalona side has taken its first step forward under the guidance of coach Marc Ballester. Currently eighth, just three points behind Atlético de Madrid (sixth place), optimism has taken hold at ONA, as the team is known. "Barça is a long way off, but so are Real Madrid and other clubs with very large budgets. Our realistic goal is a fifth or sixth place finish," Ballester stated a few days before another historic milestone. Badalona Women will play the first leg of the Copa de la Reina semifinals against Barça this Thursday (9 pm). "We've earned the right to be where we are."

As if it were a race against time, social entities set themselves the goal that the Three families evicted in Badalona Three mothers and four children, living in a dilapidated building, were left without a place to stay after the Santa Coloma de Gramanet City Council stopped paying for their Christmas accommodation on Tuesday. The group left the hostel at 11 a.m. on Tuesday with the few belongings they had managed to salvage from their home the day they were evicted from the building on Calderón de la Barca Street in the La Salut neighborhood. At that time, the three women and their children had been told by the municipal government that they could no longer stay at the hostel because the emergency aid was only for three weeks, after which the council would not cover any further expenses. The women's desperation was palpable: "We don't know where we'll spend the night, we need a place to sleep, and we can't be on the street with the children," they lamented.

A second homeless person died this week in Badalona, ​​this time in a park. Until now, their death had not been publicly reported, and it occurred the day before the death of another homeless person, Jordi, which the city council led by Xavier García Albiol did announce on its social media. Since the beginning of the year, Four people sleeping on the street have lost their lives in the cityThe Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) report that they located the body of a homeless person on Tuesday morning in the Morera petanque field. Badalona Acull (a shelter for people living on the streets) did not know him and had not worked with him, although the organization asks: "How many deaths on the streets go unreported?" They ask this question after the death was not initially made public. The organization points out that "the streets kill," as they are a hostile environment where it is easy to get sick and difficult to receive care. This is all compounded by the mental health problems that come with living in such conditions. Municipal sources state that they were unaware of the transfer until this Thursday. They add that the city council had not been monitoring his case, but the same sources do specify that he was a Ukrainian man with a criminal record. "This has never happened before."

"Four homeless people have never died in two months before," lamented Badalona Acull. On Wednesday, the body of Jordi, a local man known for his work as a butcher, was also found in a park. Deputy Mayor Eva Guillen explained that he was known to social services and a support plan had been initiated, including social assistance and weekly visits. She stated that he had also been offered temporary accommodation, which he had declined. Badalona Acull added that there are currently no resources in Badalona to accommodate the homeless, despite offers from the City Council. "There is neither a shelter nor an emergency center, essential things in a city of 200,000 inhabitants," they lamented.The Can Bofí Vell hostel, which was closed by the Albiol government in 2024It was the epicenter of a series of altercations in late December, fueled by the mayor himself, as several expelled students from the former B9 high school wanted to take refuge there because they had no residential alternative.

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A homeless man died Tuesday morning in a square in Badalona. His name was Jordi, and he was 52 years old. He was known in the city, as he had run a butcher shop a few years ago. But the business failed, and for the past few months he had been sleeping on the streets. Witnesses found him lifeless on a bench in Elisa Reverter Square, located in a part of Badalona that practically borders Montgat. The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) confirmed that the body showed no signs of violence, and everything points to a natural death.

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Badalona will be the first municipality with a PP mayor to ban tourist apartments. Xavier García Albiol's administration announced this Tuesday that it will bring a motion to the City Council to prohibit tourist accommodation in the city "between April and May." He stated that this measure is being adopted because other cities in the Barcelona metropolitan area are already taking similar steps. "Badalona cannot be left behind. It's a matter of common sense," Albiol argued. The mayor hopes this announcement will prevent the city from experiencing a flood of tourist apartment license applications if it becomes the only one in the area to allow them. In fact, in February 2024, the Badalona City Council already approved a moratorium halting the granting of tourist apartment licenses in the city. Now that this moratorium is expiring, Albiol announces that he will make the measure permanent before the summer.

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Her legs still tremble when she recounts how she went from being homeless to owning her own apartment. "We were saved by the bell, yes," Anna Pujol (a pseudonym) explains, describing how, after years of being threatened with eviction, pressured to leave quietly, and desperate attempts to stay, she finally succeeded last Wednesday, just 48 hours before the deadline for the eviction notice. Two days earlier, she reached an agreement with the investment fund and signed the preliminary sales agreement to buy the apartment where she and her mother had been renting for twenty years. The process has been very complicated and, emotionally, has been a journey through depression, anxiety, and fear for the mother, who has a disability, and for the daughter, a 24-year-old master's student who just started her first job, which facilitated her obtaining the mortgage.

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When asked if the sweater is genuine, the employee responds with a resounding yes. "It's very good, very warm," he explains. Questioned about the fact that 15 euros is a very low price for a Norway brand sweater—the one with the Norwegian flag logo—the clerk replies that it's not exactly the Norway brand from Norway, but rather another brand from Italy—a European country considered one of the epicenters of clothing counterfeiting, with the city of Prato as a prime example. When asked if payment could be made by card, the employee asks if cash would be accepted. Once paid, the exit of the store leads you to the entrance of another business, also selling clothing. In fact, it would resemble a shopping center if we weren't in the middle of an industrial park in the Sant Roc neighborhood of Badalona. Amidst the constant flow of trucks, rows of massive wholesale clothing stores are visible, about twenty in just over 300 meters.

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The mayor of Badalona, ​​​​Xavier García Albiol, He requested authorization on Friday to evict the homeless people who live in squalor under the C-31 bridge. He says that no former residents of Institut B9 remain—where he carried out a controversial eviction that literally left dozens of vulnerable people out in the cold during a severe cold snap—because they have all now been rehoused. Many of those people, like those now seeking to be displaced again without any consideration, are undocumented immigrants who, in many cases, work precariously and have great difficulty finding a place to live. Either because they cannot afford it or because they simply do not want to rent. It is the vicious cycle for undocumented immigrants, and for many who are documented, who, despite having jobs, cannot find a way to access decent housing. Hence the settlements that are proliferating everywhere and that are returning to the Catalan, and Spanish, landscape the image of large camps of shacks without the most basic services.

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The Badalona City Council has requested permission from the Catalan government to evict the settlement located under the C-31 bridge. This is where they settled. Dozens of people after the eviction from the former B9 InstituteA few meters away. According to the City Council, there are no longer any former residents of the B9 under the highway bridge, as they have all been relocated, but other homeless people remain. The affected land belongs to the highway company and, therefore, the Generalitat (Catalan government) is the owner. The City Council assures that the relocation of the people from the B9 was completed on Wednesday and that they will now take action to eliminate this settlement. The council is citing the civic ordinance that expressly prohibits "camping without municipal authorization." The camping ban was also the reason given by the City Council in the first hours after the eviction in mid-December, when some occupants of the B9 tried to settle in the square directly in front of the old high school. Once they were evicted from there, they ended up settling under the C-31 highway. The City Council estimates that there are currently about twenty people under the bridge and that social services are monitoring the situation. The city council maintains that some of these people have arrived from other cities. They believe there has been a "pull factor" effect, after this location became the central hub for social services aid to the homeless following the B9 case.

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The promotion that advertised the 30 minutes This Sunday's report on the B9 compound in Badalona stated: "Everyone has an opinion, but we went inside." This was the report's great strength: the journalistic merit of having gained access to B9 before the eviction of the four hundred people living in squalor and understanding what the interior of that former high school was like, what was happening there, and how its occupants were organized.

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Among the dozens of boxes are Christmas elves, Pikachu costumes for babies, and dolls from the movie Lilo & StitchThese are gifts that many children could have opened this Tuesday morning, after the Three Kings' Day visit to every home. But they were dangerous toys: the Pikachu doll, for example, broke easily into very small pieces that children could swallow. All these boxes were discovered in several storage units in Badalona. There were many toys, up to 214,000, and the Civil Guard is investigating six people for smuggling products dangerous to children's health. In a statement, the Spanish police made it clear that the toys could cause "blockages, cuts, or injuries" and did not meet any safety standards. In total, the seized merchandise is valued at two million euros, and the boxes were ready to be shipped to the final seller. Behind these storage units were two separate criminal groups that were dismantled in two separate operations. On December 4, 2025, five storage units were searched, and 58,650 toys and 3,621 textile products were seized. A month later, on January 2, another five storage units were searched, where 151,730 allegedly counterfeit items were confiscated. The investigation began by following the trail of several counterfeit products that arrived in Catalonia, which led investigators to the storage units in Badalona.

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The Catalan government (Generalitat) brought the relocation process for those evicted from the former B9 high school in Badalona to a close just hours before it was due to end in 2025. They have announced the opening of a "new phase" in the emergency program implemented by the Department of Social Rights and Inclusion in collaboration with social service organizations. From now on, according to sources within the department, the Badalona City Council's social services will be responsible for monitoring and making new referrals for the approximately forty people still sleeping under the C-31 bridge. The government and the alliance of social service organizations will form a group to design comprehensive inclusion plans for those evicted from the former high school in Badalona. These plans will address their immigration status, access to the job market, training, and healthcare. According to the Department of Social Rights, "the return to Badalona of those temporarily displaced as part of the emergency operation will be encouraged so that they can develop their inclusion plans within the municipality."

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Also at Christmas, the activist Carlos Sagués She's been going back and forth, visiting the dozens of people who, after being evicted from the B9 building in Badalona, ​​continue to live in squalor under the C-31 highway bridge. Much to her chagrin, Sagués is the public face of Badalona Acull, the umbrella organization for the city's social service agencies, whose volunteers dedicate countless hours, physical and emotional effort, to caring for this group. All of this is done without any public aid or subsidies. The case of the occupants of the former high school, cleared by court order earlier this month, isn't Sagués's only cause; she's been known for years for her efforts to prevent [the eviction of these people]. evictions of the residents of Sant Roc

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The Catalan government and social organizations continue to relocate the people who were evicted on December 17th from the former B9 high school in Badalona without the City Council, under Mayor Xavier García Albiol, offering them any alternative housing. This Sunday morning, the Department of Social Rights reported that temporary accommodation has been found for another six people, bringing the total number of those rehoused to 153. The Minister of Social Rights and Inclusion, Mònica Martínez Bravo, explained to RAC1 that the government's intention is to continue working with other administrations and social organizations to find dignified solutions for all the particularly vulnerable people who had been sheltering in tents and cardboard boxes under the C-highway bridge. The B9 building had housed around 400 people, but many of them decided to leave the former high school a few days before the police operation to avoid being identified by the officers.

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