Of La Riera, only the name of the neighborhood remains. Roberto, 78, was born here in Cornellà de Llobregat, and remembers how his summers were spent bathing in the river and stealing fruit and vegetables from the crops that followed the water. "Everything has changed a lot," he admits. Little remains of those summers: first, the stream and the orchards were surrounded by industrial warehouses, and then buried by the concrete that built the Espanyol stadium and the Splau shopping center. "The change has been for the better," he comments. He states that before, there were more drugs and more crime, and that with this redevelopment, the neighborhood has risen in level, as have the rents.

In the end, all the women recognize themselves in each other's stories. "We're so alike, things haven't happened to us that differently!" they repeat. There are about twenty of them, and they have in common that they had to leave their homeland to emigrate to Catalonia and have settled in Can Padró, a neighborhood in Cornellà de Llobregat accustomed to welcoming migrants. Like those who arrived in their 60s from Extremadura or Andalusia and those, starting in this new century, from Latin America. Today this heterogeneous group—by origin and also by generation—has met in a room of the neighborhood association in an activity organized by Cáritas to promote, precisely, knowledge and interaction among neighbors who surely wouldn't meet up if it weren't for spaces like this.

Yesterday, officers from the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit of the National Police (UDEF) searched the headquarters of the Department of Sports in Cornellà City Council of Cornellà and the headquarters of the Consell Esportiu del Baix Llobregat in Sant Feliu de Llobregat, investigating allegations of corruption, as advanced by SER and confirmed by ARA. According to police and court sources, the arrests stem from the Consell Esportiu de l'Hospitalet case, which affects mayor Núria Marín and former Generalitat Secretary of Sports Gerard Figueras. So far the police have arrested at least five people, including Salvador Valls, head of the council's Sports area and former manager of the Consell Esportiu del Baix Llobregat, as ARA has learned.