Barcelona and Palma Brace for Major Airport Protests This Weekend as Locals Voice Anger at Planned Expansions
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More than 5,000 people, according to the municipal police, marched on Sunday, 20 September in the streets of Barcelona to protest the plan to expand the airport. Protesters denounce an ecological and social aberration.
Some 5,500 people, according to the Guardia Urbana, have demonstrated this Sunday through the streets of the center of the Catalan capital to reject the expansion of the airport Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat considering that it would aggravate the climate crisis and accentuate the massive tourism that the city suffers.Continue reading...
The protest was formally supported by more than 210 civil society entities, environmental groups and some 130 academics.
The Guàrdia Urbana estimates attendance at 5,500 people and the organizers, at around 30,000
Thousands of people called by Zeroport and 210 other entities have paraded between Passeig de Gràcia and Plaza Sant Jaume to protest the project to increase the capacity of the Barcelona airfieldThe expansion of El Prat airport will increase by 22% the emissions of polluting gases After a banner on which could be read “expansion, neither now nor ever” thousands of people have demonstrated this Sunday in the center of Barcelona.
The protest brings together more than 200 entities, including ERC, BComú and the CUP, who demand to stop a project that they link to the climate crisis, housing and tourism massification.
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