The new billboards set up by the City Council at the beginning of May at the Turó de la Rovira viewpoint are not solving the problems of coexistence unleashed by the tourist mass of the place. Entities from Carmel will demonstrate in the neighborhood this Monday afternoon to denounce the attack on a neighbor by a group of visitors that occurred last week.
As detailed in the Consell del Turó de la Rovira, probably the association of the most critical area with the municipal management of this saturation problem, last Wednesday, around half past ten at night, a resident of Marià Labèrnia street, The busiest access road to the viewpoint, where many tourists go up and down, especially at sunset, caught the attention of a group of tourists who were preparing to jump over the installed fences. Joan, 76, a lifelong resident of this street, well known in the neighborhood, then suffered several blows, several punches and kicks, and on top of him they stole the mobile with which he recorded his attackers. This is not the first time something like this has happened in the area. Although the truth is that insults are more frequent than slaps.
Despite the fact that the municipal employees lock up around half past seven in the evening to stop the floods of people who come to watch the sunset over Barcelona and have a few beers on the way, not a few do not hesitate to skip the installation and sneak in quietly. in the place. Such audacity unworthy of many neighbors in the surrounding area. In addition, not a few on this side of the city see the new fence as a surrender to the mass, a mass that in the end took away one of the symbols of their neighborhood.
The new fence was an initiative promoted mainly by the previous mayor in charge of the Horta Guinardó district, the socialist Rosa Alarcón, intended above all to bring about a turning point, to discourage people who come to the place late in the day in order to to enjoy the views and see if a party arises. The socialist Lluís Rabell is the new mayor of the district, and also the one in charge of dealing with a problem that will surely heat up as the summer progresses.
