What's going on in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bthe cosmopolitan capital and coveted Catalonia? The Chronicles of recent months describe it as a city on the edge of chaos. From June to today, there were a couple of power outages from the heavy economic and social consequences (traders and damaged bar and citizens have to live with noisy generators provisional pending the restoration of the network) a couple of collapses in road traffic also caused the clamorous train accidents, train on their knees because of the work on the AVE, which in these days are causing ulteirori complaints from commuters (rail traffic haywire yesterday and today free tickets for commuters). The feeling of chaos in infrastructure is latent and is the game of the nationalists, who accuse Madrid not to spend Barcelona, \u200b\u200bdespite the fees paid back by the Catalans in the prosperous state coffers, or whatever. But it is not surprising that only
annus horribilis infrastructure, but the fact that adverse events if they add more and more, perhaps far away and foreign, but added together they give the idea that climate is a city. Since yesterday, running on the Internet video shot by the cameras of a subway train where you see a young man, waiting to get off at Colonia Guell, violently attacks with kicks and insults, a 16 year old Ecuadorian, simply for being foreign. The attack took place on October 7 last year, the indifference of the other passengers: Xavier, some previous robbery with violence, was talking on the phone and has never ceased to do so while attacking the girl. As soon as he got out, she asked for help to the police and has since then been in psychological treatment to overcome the trauma. On 19 October the police arrested the attacker, returned yesterday at liberty pending trial. The cameras that besiege him said he did not remember anything at all because that day was "completely drunk and when one is drunk and not remember what he did" not assured of being racist and that he evidently under the fumes of alcohol " lost my head and so well. " Took advantage of the cameras to apologize to the young man attacked because it "did not deserve that I made clear that I feel responsible, it's all my fault. "
The video made the rounds of blogs and the English media on the Internet (up El Mundo is here) and obviously we've come to talk about the growing Catalan society of intolerance towards foreigners and the difficulties of living in Barcelona and surroundings, including incidents of petty crime and insecurity increasingly popular. Now that you know that Xavier was drunk certainly speak of the excessive consumption of alcohol among Young, alcoholism as a factor of social insecurity, etc. etc..
Then there's episodes that suggest all is not lost. This morning, in one of the now hated trains Italian delays, passengers have been singing a controller for his racist attitude, because he asked the ticket to the only black man present, Dr. Ivan Ramos, a pediatrician of the Centro de Atención Primary (CAP) in Figueres. A witness told Catalunya Informació that "the inspector went directly to him and threatened to stop the train if it had given him, with a clearly racist attitude." Due to the delay of more than twenty minutes, the doctor refused to show it and then the controller has stopped for seven minutes in the train station and 30 others to Flaçà Camallera, waiting for the police, including the whistles of solidarity with passengers Ramos. The police then checked the regular ticket Ramos and have let go without consequences, but the accumulated delay of 50 minutes from the train. Chronicle of a Catalonia that is living a somewhat 'so.
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