It can take up to three months for a victim of sexual violence in Barcelona to receive specialized care or treatment after seeking help. This is an "excessive" amount of time, emphasizes David Bondia, the Barcelona Ombudsman, in his report analyzing the workings of the specialized service system for supporting female survivors. The report, presented this Tuesday at the institution's headquarters, concludes that the services are not adequately sized to meet the needs of the victims.steady increase in sexual assaults recorded every year "This increase in complaints has overwhelmed the system in the city of Barcelona," Bondia admitted during her speech, in which she called for more resources and more staff to cope. But, in addition, this system is better prepared—or better suited—to assist recent victims of violence than to assist the majority of users: those who seek help months or even years after the assault occurred. The distrust in the system, fear of the aggressor The fear of not being believed, the normalization of aggression, or shame are factors that explain why Less than 10% of survivors report the assaults

Barcelona's public ombudsman proposes that the tourism sector help improve the municipal model for emergency temporary accommodation. In a report presented this Tuesday, David Bondia advocates for a "paradigm shift" in a system that, he claims, has proven "ineffective" in meeting the goal of hostels and guesthouses as a temporary and emergency resource for vulnerable people who are evicted to spend a few months before returning to housing.