In recent years, and especially with the arrival of nice weather, several episodes have arisen about it Barcelona and his uncertainty. The Catalan capital, like any other major city, is a powerful tourist draw and that leads to problems of coexistence and civility because some areas are affected. In this sense, many have recently denounced the situation in the Raval.
To know the reality there The sixth He came into this neighborhood. Journalist Jalis de la Sernaone of the network's most popular reporters, premiered this week alongside Zazza El Italiano: 'Patrolling', a program in the style of 'Callejeros' that brought him fame but in this case visited conflict areas.
In his first program, last Tuesday, De la Serna walked through the Raval, but also the areas of Lavapiés (Madrid) and San Francisco (Bilbao) and spoke with his neighbors. One of the scenes that will certainly be remembered from this first broadcast, which certainly attracted many viewers, is what De la Serna experienced in the Barcelona center.
'The neighborhood is destroyed'
In the Raval, the presenter walked around the outskirts of the Rambla del Raval, in some alleys where testimony made it clear that there were always 'robbers and whores'. 'Apatrullando' showed images showing several homeless people on the streets and drug addicts wandering around as if nothing had happened.
He also spoke to a number of those who go to the Baluard drug trafficking center, and shortly afterwards he started talking to a group of neighbors who wanted to express for the cameras what they experience every day. «The Raval district It has been destroyed, it no longer existssaid Maite, a neighbor who was questioned by one of the drugstore's users, who contradicted her opinion.
'He can't know more about the Raval than we do, because we we live from day to day and from night to night», the man remarked angrily. She walked away indignant that they had interrupted her and shortly afterwards, calmer now, she continued talking to De la Serna and talking about the difficult daily life she leads there.
For example, the woman specified that “these gentlemen are what we have every day, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 12 months a year.” «Grandparents can't go outside take to the streets to enjoy the sun, even children cannot go to the squares,” he admitted. “What you see is the Raval pure and simple. “I was born here and the Raval was not by chance,” she said, before being interrupted by a police car with its siren blaring.
“I grew up on the streets and played on the streets with my street friends and today you can't go out on the streets, and no more children or teenagers…” she noted, pointing to “drugs” as the culprit. everything. «An impeccable neighborhood who came 92nd at the Olympics. The Olympics were over and the relegation began and to top it all off the Baluard room was decorated. “It was a beautiful neighborhood,” Maite says.