ציטוט:
Ada Colau Ballano
28 August at 12:36 ·
Before yesterday, 50 people died of suffocation in the cellar of a boat. Yesterday, more than 70 dead on the inside of a truck. Today we woke up with two wrecks: can that more than a hundred dead. We have a sea that is full of dead. A few borders that are filled with wire, spikes, blades... And Dead.
Men, women, boys and girls, dead.
And a part of Europe is crying, screaming, to be saved, you don't die, but... But that don't come, they go, they disappear, they don't exist and we don't have to see them on TV, and less on our streets, with their blankets, in the subway, or on the stairs of our houses.
Some irresponsibly promote the fear of "the other", "illegals", " those who come to sell without a license "," To spend our health ", "to stay our aid", "to take our places of school", "to ask", " to beg " " to commit an offence "...
But the fear is just that: fear. Our fear to live a little worse against his fear not to survive. Our fear to have to share a small part of the well-being against his fear of the hungry and to death, so deep that has given them the courage to risk everything, to come without another baggage that the own fear.
Fear against fear. And yours is stronger. So Europe, Europeans: Let's open the eyes. It's not going to have enough walls or wires to stop this. Or tear gas and rubber ball. Or dealing with a human drama from the ability to love that makes us human, or we'll all be dehumanized. And there will be more dead, many more. This is not a battle to protect us from "the other". Right now this is a war against life.
That Governments stop threatening to the ' call effect ". What he needs Europe, as a matter of urgency, is a "call to the affection", A call to empathy. Could be our children, sisters or mothers. We could be us, as they were also exiles many of our grandparents.
Although it is a subject of state competition and European from Barcelona, we will do everything we can to take part of a network of cities-shelter. We want to cities committed to human rights and with the life of the cities, to be proud of.