The mayor of Badalona, ??Xavier García Albiol, has expressed this Tuesday his total predisposition to meet with the Minister of Social Rights, Carles Campuzano, in the face of sexual assaults on minors that have been committed in recent months in the city. Campuzano has asked Albiol, who has been mayor again since Saturday, for an urgent meeting to address this crisis and to inform him of the agreement for the Sant Roc neighborhood.
Albiol will let you know throughout today the predisposition to meet “immediately” and has added that “with good words and great proclamations the problems that exist in Sant Roc will not be solved”, but rather “concrete measures” are necessary in the social, educational and justice fields”, he told reporters. And he believes that it would be “very positive” to meet with the Government to seek solutions to the crisis of sexual assaults suffered by minors and committed by boys who do not reach the age of majority in practically all cases.
“I have every predisposition to meet with the ministers,” he stressed, after Campuzano asked him by letter for an urgent meeting. Albiol wanted to warn the holder of Social Rights, however, that the eventual meeting “cannot be left in a photograph” and that it is necessary to move on to “concrete facts” to address a problem that falls within “the social, educational and Justice”.
For this reason, the mayor hopes that the meeting will raise proposals that can be effective and that, if so, the department will have “all the collaboration of the City Council.” For his part, he said, the consistory “is willing to invest what is necessary to resolve the situation,” but in measures that can give “results” and “not in actions facing the gallery,” he insisted.
In the letter, Campuzano indicates that the meeting would serve to inform about the agreement in the Sant Roc neighborhood, which the department worked with the previous municipal government. It is a pilot plan in the style of what has been promoted in other places in Catalonia to promote community work among young people. In the case of Badalona, ??some of the young people who would have participated in the attacks are from the Sant Roc neighborhood, on which the administrations are now trying to focus to reverse the situation.
