The EU-Podem councilor in the Alicante City Council has filed a complaint with the court on duty and has given a statement at the National Police Station after being injured during the police action taken against those who were trying to prevent the eviction of a man on the central Heliodoro Guillén street in Alicante.
As has been happening in these cases, the Barrio Carolinas Union has tried to prevent the launch through negotiation with the court, but given the impossibility of achieving this, they have tried to intervene in the police action. The agents have used force to remove those who were in the way of their attempt to access the property and, as Copé himself explained, they have hit the councilor, causing him a blunt injury to the scalp, as can be seen in the accompanying image. this information and in the injury report that the mayor has presented to the court on duty.
The evicted person is Ali Hassine, a 73-year-old man without a family who had asked for more time to find an alternative to the home he had occupied for more than two years and for which he paid a rent of 300 euros until a few months ago.
In his complaint, the councilor claims that “he was peacefully, carrying out passive resistance for an eviction”, he adds that there were “around 30 people” with him, and that “without prior notice, two police officers from the national police force , in uniform, they have lifted him up and taken him out of there in bad ways”.
Copé adds, as stated in the police report, that “he does not know when or how, but they hit him, causing a wound to the head,” and provides a copy of the injury report which shows “a blunt-cut injury on the scalp area.
Sources from Esquerra Unida assure that “one of the agents has exercised greater violence, pushing the Alicante City Council councilor down the stairs, causing him a head injury.” According to the US, “the head of the National Police present there himself has asked to remove him after noticing the brutal use of force that he was exercising against the gathered people. Seven of his colleagues were injured by the police.”
Questioned by this means about the complaint, at the time of writing these lines the Government Subdelegation had not offered a response. But both the Socialist Group of the City Council and the two Compromís councilors have shown their support for their fellow corporation.
