The Sants funeral home has already started up this Thursday. But its inauguration has sparked a new wave of neighborhood protests. Half a hundred people have entered the facility and have occupied it with slogans such as “out of our neighborhoods.”
Since the beginning of its construction, a year and a half ago, a good part of the residents of the neighborhood were against it and even filed an appeal against it in the TSJC, which has not prevented the equipment from being put into operation.
According to the Stop Tanatori Platform, the installation “responds to speculative interests” and considers that equipment like this is not necessary in the neighborhood. They believe that it only responds to speculative interests and that it is unsustainable because it will cause traffic jams and increase pollution.
Those responsible for the installation, Proxima Serveis Funeraris, point out that the funeral home responds to the need to integrate this type of equipment into the urban fabric in order to offer a service close to families, thus providing service to the districts of Sants-Montjuïc, les Corts, Eixample and Ciutat Vella.
The Stop Tanatori platform denounced that where the first chiquipark in Barcelona operated for years, a funeral home will now be installed. This body and the more than 8,000 firms that support them understand that the neighborhood has other needs.
The fact is that the accesses to the new candle rooms and the chapel of the future funeral home will be arranged in front of the basketball courts and the pingpong tables in question. The protests wanted the City Council to shield these neighborhood uses, thus seeking to prioritize citizen activities, and above all to do so before the municipal elections.
