The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, attributes the night disturbances of the general strike to anarchist groups and declares the Blocus movement dismantled.
According to larazon.es, the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, positively assesses the general strike held this wednesday. For the head of the Catalan Executive, the day passed with civility and normality until the violent episodes of the night occurred.
Illa attributes these disturbances to anti-system groups of anarchist ideology, which he claims infiltrate the demonstrations to commit crimes. In an interview on TVE this thursday, he summarised it this way:
“They infiltrate the demonstrations and take advantage of these demonstrations to commit criminal acts, because breaking a shop window does not defend a home, it uses the home as an excuse to break the shop window.”
The president assures that the security forces have identified these groups. Furthermore, he dissociates the organisation of the disturbances from the Blocus movement, which emerged on social media, that encouraged looting in establishments in various Spanish cities and which, according to Illa, is already dismantled.
The mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni, has raised the number of detainees for the disturbances in the Catalan capital during the night to 52. Illa warns that the Generalitat will act decisively against the violent.
On another front, the Permanent Deputation of Congress will debate this thursday the ratification of the two housing decrees that the full Chamber had rejected. Illa considers it “an important step forward” for the housing situation in Spain.
“The competencies of housing are largely with the autonomous communities, my Govern exercises them with full responsibility, applying the housing law, regulating the market, and this offers more instruments for market regulation.”
Regarding the Bilateral Commission Generalitat-State, which meets this same thursday, the Catalan president points out that three issues will be addressed: the role of the Generalitat in airport management, the railway orbital line, and the agreement for the maintenance of the works on the AP-7.
In airport matters, Illa demands that Catalonia achieve an agreement on the same terms as the Basque Country, and states that the Executive's intention is to help the proper functioning of the network.
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