The Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Barcelona, through its Hate and Discrimination Unit, has opened investigation proceedings against Xavier García Albiol, mayor of Badalona, for the mass eviction carried out on December 17, 2025, at the former B9 institute, which left around 400 people, mostly sub-Saharan migrants, on the street.
The investigation follows a criminal complaint filed on December 24 by Jaume Asens, a Member of the European Parliament for the Comuns, who alleges that Albiol may have committed several offenses in the context of the eviction. Among the possible infractions being analyzed are denial of public service for discriminatory reasons, hate crime, disobedience to judicial authority, and administrative prevarication, according to sources from the Prosecutor's Office.
The complaint emphasizes that the municipal action could have violated not only the access to social care for the evicted individuals, but also a court ruling that conditioned the eviction on the guarantee of housing alternatives for those affected. Furthermore, the Comuns criticize what they consider an “institutional tolerance” towards episodes of hostility and neighborhood pressure against the migrant individuals residing in the building.
For its part, the **Badalona City Council has defended that the eviction was carried out with "scrupulous legality"** and that work has been done jointly with the Department of Social Rights and Inclusion to assist the affected people, although municipal sources have indicated that they consider the complaint "absurd."
The opening of these proceedings is in addition to a judicial procedure already underway, as the Prosecutor's Office previously asked a court to verify whether the city council complied with the order to provide social assistance to the evicted migrants, as required by the judicial mandate that authorized the intervention.