Controversy over video of two girls running through the Florida neighborhood: "Here's a kebab"
During the post, the young women claim that people look at them and call them things like "Handsome!"
BarcelonaOn Tuesday, a video of two girls running through the Florida neighborhood of Hospitalet de Llobregat sparked a storm of criticism online. In the footage, the young women allegedly recorded themselves doing running through the neighborhood of the Catalan city while discussing their perceptions. "This is the first episode of Running through the dangerous neighborhoods of Barcelona", they say once the exercise is over. Hundreds of internet users have called the video "classist" and "racist."
The post, less than a minute long, has already been deleted from the profile of the influencer Mariona Pujol, one of the two protagonists. "It's like people's eyes are glued to you," she says once they start running. After completing the first kilometer, the other friend says that so far she's "only" smelled kebabs. Besides, the influencer He also says that they have been called "many things, like 'Handsome!'"
"We don't pose"
In response to the social media outcry, the mayor of Hospitalet, David Quirós, has come out in defense of the neighborhood. "In Florida and Hospitalet, we don't posture; here, clichés aren't recorded, real stories are written," he said. The president of the L'Hospitalet Regional Government, Antoni Garcia, also expressed his opinion: "Rats run wild on TikTok. Dignity walks through the neighborhoods of L'Hospitalet." It should be noted that, according to the newspaper The Hdigital, the original video was not even recorded in Florida, but rather began in the Pubilla Cases neighborhood and ended near the Finestrelles Shopping Center, outside the municipality of L'Hospitalet.
