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A HIGH faculty in Barcelona has taken authorized motion after offensive graffiti in opposition to foreigners and ‘posh’ individuals has repeatedly appeared on its partitions.
The Barcelona Excessive Faculty, which is a non-public establishment with two centres within the Gracia neighbourhood of the Catalan capital, has filed two reviews with Metropolis Corridor claiming that the slogans represent a hate crime.
The messages included ‘f*ck pijos’, a Spanish phrase used offensively and that could possibly be translated as ‘posh individuals’, in addition to ‘putos pijos’ (f*cking posh individuals), and ‘guiris go dwelling’, a message that used a phrase for northern Europeans, significantly the British, and that’s thought of by some to be offensive.
In response to a report in Spanish every day El Pais, these slogans are usually daubed on the partitions in areas of Barcelona which are significantly laborious hit by excessive ranges of tourism, however it’s uncommon for them to be denounced as a hate crime.
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“We have now filed two complaints, one final Friday and one this Tuesday, as a result of we’ve got two campuses and there are acts of vandalism on each of them,” Usman Gil, the college’s companies coordinator, advised El Pais.
Gil additionally defined that the elite faculty, which prices round €1,500 a month per scholar, has filed complaints in regards to the graffiti earlier than however has obtained little response both from the council or the authorities.
“Their response is that they can’t do something, possibly a effective in the event that they catch them, however that’s it,” he mentioned.
“In the long run these individuals get what they need, which is consideration,” he added.
Hate crimes will be punished in Spain below the Legal Code, and carry with them fines starting from €150 to €3,000.
This yr has seen an increase in anti-tourism graffiti throughout Spain, as visits to Spanish locations proceed to interrupt new data, placing the native inhabitants below strain attributable to points similar to gentrification, rising property prices and delinquent behaviour.
Simply this week graffiti appeared in Sevilla branding vacationers a ‘plague’, and an activist group from the identical southern Spanish metropolis tweeted out an AI picture of a rat in a message that in contrast guests to the rodents.
