Second shooting in Barcelona's Zona Franca in one month: mayor calls for calm
Another fatal shooting hits Barcelona's Zona Franca, the second in a month. The city council calls for calm as housing prices reach 600,000 euros.
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Another death in Barcelona's Zona Franca: two shootings in 30 days and the city council keeps calling for calm
A new fatal shooting has shaken Barcelona's Zona Franca, the second in less than a month in the same area. According to residents, the city council has repeated its message of calm, but the repetition of these events is becoming increasingly hard to square with reality. The first incident peine just four weeks ago; the second, yesterday. Both homicides, according to sources consulted, are believed to be unrelated.
Zona Franca, a neighbourhood in transformation with 500,000-euro price tags
Zona Franca is marketed as an "engine for revitalising the metropolitan area" and a hub for the "industry of the future", but the violence figures tell a different story. New-build flats in the area sell for between 500,000 and 600,000 euros, prices that clash with an environment where shootings keep recurring. Residents point out that before there were only occasional thefts and weapons; now murders happen in broad daylight on the street. The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalonia's regional police force) has had a station in the neighbourhood for years, but it does not seem to be enough.
Twelve assault rifles in a Porsche: the backdrop of insecurity
To the wave of shootings is added the recent seizure of twelve assault rifles from a Porsche by the Mossos, as reported by El Mundo on 8 June. The operation took place before the Pope's visit, adding a disturbing backdrop to street safety. Receiving "reassuring messages" while arsenals circulate freely sounds like a bad joke.
The paradox is that the neighbourhood is sold as an area of the future and the new flats cost half a million, while crime becomes normalised. The official narrative does not need to be coherent: it is a verbal balm. But residents are no longer buying it.
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A new fatal shooting has shaken Barcelona's Zona Franca, the second in less than a month in the same area. According to residents, the city council has repeated its message of calm, but the repetition of these events is becoming increasingly hard to square with reality. The first incident peine just four weeks ago; the second, yesterday. Both homicides, according to sources consulted, are believed to be unrelated.
Zona Franca, a neighbourhood in transformation with 500,000-euro price tags
Zona Franca is marketed as an "engine for revitalising the metropolitan area" and a hub for the "industry of the future", but the violence figures tell a different story. New-build flats in the area sell for between 500,000 and 600,000 euros, prices that clash with an environment where shootings keep recurring. Residents point out that before there were only occasional thefts and weapons; now murders happen in broad daylight on the street. The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalonia's regional police force) has had a station in the neighbourhood for years, but it does not seem to be enough.
Twelve assault rifles in a Porsche: the backdrop of insecurity
To the wave of shootings is added the recent seizure of twelve assault rifles from a Porsche by the Mossos, as reported by El Mundo on 8 June. The operation took place before the Pope's visit, adding a disturbing backdrop to street safety. Receiving "reassuring messages" while arsenals circulate freely sounds like a bad joke.
The paradox is that the neighbourhood is sold as an area of the future and the new flats cost half a million, while crime becomes normalised. The official narrative does not need to be coherent: it is a verbal balm. But residents are no longer buying it.
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