“It cannot be accepted. We are talking about the people who are leaving on the street, and especially the minors,” explained the organizers of the rally in Vitoria-Gasteiz in a statement read at noon this Thursday. As they explained, in May they sent a letter to the mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Gorka Uraran, in the post-confinement phase, to ask for a solution to vulnerable people and families who had neither roof nor protection, but who have not received an answer: “Apparently, it’s not something that takes your sleep away,” they added.

In general, these people are also affected by the “hidden racism” that prevents them from finding a home. Both associations have proposed to the City Hall of Vitoria-Gasteiz a series of measures to guide the situation, such as the regulation of the rental market and the increase of residential resources in Vitoria-Gasteiz, the protection of people who are in the temporary host zones, guarantee social registration…

In the concentration they have denounced that, in the absence of public protection, the people of these groups have had to welcome the initiative and bring home the migrants, “as well as the families with children, who from the scope of the social services of Vitoria-Gasteiz do not offer accommodation, claiming lack of resources”. As you have explained, in the industrial pavilions there are people who have had to survive or, in the worst case, have left the city.

They have stressed that this lack of resources is noted throughout Álava and have censored the words of Iñigo Urkullu, “while sending hypocritical messages to welcome the people who are in Greece, who leave completely abandoned those who are here, he and his mayors.”