Despair and suicide in the face of eviction

Evictions show the insensitivity of the institutions, contempt for life and the decomposition of the capitalist system.

The media reported a painful News: a man of 58 years he committed suicide when he was going to be evicted from the house where he lived as a tenant, in Bacardi street 15 of Saints, Barcelona. He threw himself off the balcony at the moment when the judicial procession began The procedure. The social services of the City Council were aware of the hell that the person who took his life was going through, because had prepared a vulnerability report requesting the suspension of the eviction: he had lost his job, he had exhausted the social benefits that they corresponded and I could not pay the rent since June of last year. Without embargo, the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), refused to suspend the measure since, according to his dire criteria "The situation does not met the requirements established by the royal decree to consider the case as vulnerable "

Now everyone blames each other, the mayor Ada Colau (In Common We can) he points out the judges and the PSOE and they wash their hands. But all are politically responsible for what happened, among which there are also what to mention to Govern of Pere Aragonés, since it is not a fact isolated, evictions are an everyday thing, they leave poor families in the street in full pandemic, almost always aggravated by violence police executed by Mossos d’Esquadra. The victims of the crisis and the lousy institutional responses are always the same, the workers and the poor. Entrepreneurs are always saved, either way they look for whatever way to preserve their profits.

With capitalism, life is at stake, everyday, because it is an unfair system, of exploitation and oppression, in which the lives of those most in need are worth less than business profits. The governments, the institutions and parties that defend this system cannot shirk their responsibilities. All of them are accomplices of a legal scaffolding set up so that housing is not a basic right but a big business. In this case, the authorities did not even resolve the extension of social benefits and the payment of back rent to the owner, that is not a big holder of real estate. It was not a suicide but a murder.

We must mobilize to repudiate the social insensitivity of the authorities and demand profound changes, prohibiting evictions, with the application of urgent social measures in favor of vulnerable people, with the expropriation and / or social availability of real estate destined for large profits and speculation, as transitory and urgent measures on the way to a substantive exit: the implementation of a social housing plan accessible to all. From SOL we stand in solidarity and participate in the action called in Plaza de Sants by the social organizations that defend tenants, "When you take us away from home, you are killing us!