Vigo denounces the forgetting of the fire which cost the lives of a mother and three of her children

It was in the early morning of October 11 that flames devoured the building where Rosana and her three children, Aldara, Sara and Ezequiel, aged 11 to 14, lived. The fire, which left the city of Vigo in shock for weeks, cost everyone their lives. burned down building number 6 on Alfonsoin which around thirty people lived, in addition to their pets, in precarious living conditions. This Saturday, one year after the tragedy, around fifty people attended the anniversary tribute, during which, in addition, the social group ‘Os Niguéns’ denounced “broken promises”, ensuring that the surviving families would not will never be relocated.

At the event, the organizing group read a manifesto denouncing that what happened a year ago was a tragedy that “could have been avoided if all poor residents of Vigo had had access to affordable housing and comfortable”. As reported by Ep, ‘Os Ninguéns’ pointed out that Poverty “has a woman’s face”a “harsh reality” which directly points the finger at public institutions because “they lack a response to the evictions of single-parent households which often end in family breakdown”. “The administrations should buy habitable housing, claiming Sareb’s property in the city, and those empty of teachers and officials of penitentiary institutions,” they stressed. All should be distributed, according to the Vigo group, to people at risk of social vulnerability, to beneficiaries of inclusion income and to women in situations of prostitution “caused by great poverty”.

‘Os Ninguéns’ pointed out that the people who lived in Alfonsoextreme poverty, victims of a predatory capitalist system“. “And they had needs well known to public institutions,” they stressed, highlighting the lack of memory of what happened a year ago and the absence of measures to help people in a similar situation in all of Galicia.

According to what they reported this Saturday, “the situation has not improved” for the survivors, and for some of them “They live in overcrowded apartments with six or seven people because they don’t have a better deal.“. “A year later, the promise that everyone would be relocated has not been kept,” they declared on the occasion of the Pilar festival, during which “Os Ninguéns” lamented that it there is “nothing to celebrate”. An October 12 which for them should be a date to “experience collective mourning” and “channel the rage at the institutional abandonment of the political will to improve the lives of these people”.