The Civil Guard barracks in Sabadell are being evacuated.

BarcelonaThe Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) evicted the former Civil Guard barracks in Sabadell on Tuesday morning. Sixteen people were still living in the building, after being notified a few weeks ago of an order to vacate the premises due to structural risks. The operation was carried out without incident, and the last occupants left the building following police orders. Sabadell DailyThe entrances to the building will now be bricked up to prevent further occupation. Just a few weeks ago, around forty people, some of them minors, were living in the barracks, as explained by the ARA.

A few weeks ago, The occupants themselves complained to the ARA that no one from the City Council had bothered to check the condition of the homes after they had repaired them.The former barracks consist of the old police station and four apartment buildings with about thirty units, where officers and their families used to live. The people who had occupied these apartments claim that what is truly dilapidated is the barracks itself, not the apartments they now live in. However, the truth is that many of the people who were staying there have found alternative places to live. This is the case, for example, of Four young people who have been taken in by Àlex Puy Empordàwho also lived on the streets for years and eventually turned her life around. "If life had always been easy for me, perhaps it wouldn't have occurred to me to take anyone in. But with my experience, I couldn't say no," she argued just a few days ago.

The association Nadie sin Techo Sabadell (No One Without a Roof Sabadell) had also offered accommodation to two other people, while the Sabadell City Council moved the two families with young children who were living in the former barracks to a hostel. During these weeks, other people have also left the barracks on their own.