Imposed vulnerability is Human Trafficking!

Storytelling for Human Rights by Oana Maroti

Today's lesson: If you are in a tremendous situation, don't expect social services to give support.

Ous is losing hope, as he declared today. He hardly has a voice, and he is on the streets.

I tried to help Ous, and today, I made a train trip with him from Barcelona to Terrassa, where he was last registered, but the person in charge never looked for him. From one office, we were redirected via a closed communication game, from not checking the name in the computer, to constantly changing the person we were supposed to talk to. In the end, we had to make conversation with 7 people. They tried to convince us that they would call Ous, even if he has no phone. I have specified that he has no phone and ended up offending me…They offended him, too.

Some individual named Ramon even had the nerve to tell Ous to be on the streets, the Ramon character immediately replied in the most non-humanistic approach that he needs to consult a head doctor… We went there as an emergency to search for help, yet the service of the concerned institution is way behind the subject.

Closing communication, trying to intimidate, and the whole dynamics that these institutions are showing is the reverse of what is supposed to be. From my part, I wish that Ramón person loses his job ASAP. Such an individual is a concern in a support department.

I was practically told to take him and do whatever. So, if you need to dominate a person, make them work for you, the streets are full of people left in oblivion and hungry…

What kind of human rights support is this? The imposed vulnerability is human trafficking!

Cataluña doesn't cease to surprise me in a very bad way. I must confess that such an inhumanistic, illogical, and unbehaved approach as in here is rare.

Human rights responsables, at the EU level, please take action! Lawyers are needed. This kind of treatment can not be legal.

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The holidays have passed, no attention to the case whatsoever, no phone yet, as it doesn´t rain with phones, no jacket either, or food, or a tent...Ous survived the worst part of the winter, that took various lives around, but he survived out of pure self-control and adaptation to conditions that are worse than prisión conditions as there is no bed to sleep on, no food each day, no basics that a person needs, the Catalonian survival is similar to being in an open war, and these days the racist attack did not missed the occasion, as for a black person even to walk the street in front of the clubs at the beach it´s dangerous, in Barcelona 2026.

After repeatedly asking for help, a person was left in the impossibility of communication, and all the doors remained closed, in the cold season, which means, administratively speaking, that the emergency plan was not activated, or if it was, it was not applied. The lack of organizing things even in emergency situations, which are specific to the bone, is shown in the fact that people are left in dangerous situations.

Ous was physically abused more than once in 3 months, when he was asking desperately for help. The types of aggression are not just verbal; those are daily occurrences, and people just pass by offending. If in doubt, have a walk with him and observe it. I have calculated 5 offenses in 10 min of walking on a central street. Besides verbal offenses, Ous is always in danger when simply walking. A few days back, he was beaten and sprayed for passing by in front of a well-known club, in the beach area. The security guards did not like his presence and beat him.

My question is, what kind of security is that that is aggressing people? What is a guard? What is security? What is protection? Why in the touristic beach area are racists working? Why are the institutions and businesses topped with such problematic individuals, and how soon will they be losing their jobs?

Justice and human rights are the supreme forces of our interactions. It might seem from a bully's position that by imposing violence and a lack of care, we are dominant, but it´s quite the reverse.

Attacking innocent people, as well as putting them at risk, is inhuman. In a social context, we live under different rules.