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Madrid Mayor Ana Botella introduces a "friendliness" ordinance that punishes and prosecutes with special cruelty people who find themselves forced to live on the streets, beg or wash windshields to survive.
Ana Botella has decided to criminalize the poverty that stigmatizes the streets of Madrid through a Citizen 'Friendliness' Ordinance which is an exercise in institutional sadism against thousands of people who own absolutely nothing.
Rather than seeking solutions to the vertiginous increase in social exclusion and poverty, the draft ordinance presented by Madrid City Council opts to criminalize and punish people who have seen themselves thrown into the streets by a radically unfair. Thus the new municipal ordinance provides for penalties of 750 euros for begging at the door of shopping centers, offices, colleges and hospitals. 750 euros is also the amount of the fine for people who offer scarves at red lights to ensure a meal or who are forced to sleep on a bench. 1 euros in penalties (twice the minimum wage) will be the amount that will affect people who clean windscreens at red lights and intersections in exchange for a little change. Cooking in the street - an increasingly common thing, given that whole families are homeless, and use small stoves to heat their food - will also be punished with a fine of 500 euros.
The relentlessness of the corporation chaired by Ana Botella against people excluded from the economic and social policies embodied by this lady and her party is notorious. In a sinister ricochet, the municipality begins by evicting people from their homes, as is the case with the evictions of the Municipal Housing Company and then it imposes fines on families who find themselves on the street after having ruined their lives .
The norm does not only sanction poverty. Other realities of the Madrid landscape will be affected. Madrid adds to the widespread persecution practiced by the municipal governments of the PP against skaters banning the use of skateboards on public roads to the point of having eliminated them from the streets in almost all the localities governed by the PP, l aesthetics of these young people and their tastes as rappers are not well seen by the right.
The Madrid municipality will also fine anyone who feeds an animal on public roads, thus criminalizing one of the most typical and precious images of the city; elders and children feeding pigeons and sparrows with breadcrumbs in the parks of Madrid.
All this in a country in which, according to the National Institute of Statistics, 1 person in 5 lives in poverty, 2,2 million children do not have enough to eat and 29,9% of households have unpaid mortgages and are threatened with deportation.
Source (s): Kaosenlared.net via Leschroniquesderorschach.blogspot.fr who relayed it from Fr.sott.net
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