Direction: Ignasi Gallart Cajo and Xavier Brichs
Production/TV: 3Cat, 30 minuts, Informatius 3Cat
Country: Spain
Year: 2026
Genre: News report:
Channel: TV3 and 3Cat
Duration: 44 min
SYNOPSIS
Inside B9: a symbol of solidarity with immigrants, but also of rejection.
B9 has become a symbol of the struggle for the rights of undocumented immigrants, but also of the rejection that situations linked to poverty and marginalisation can provoke. For more than two years, it was Catalonia’s largest settlement, with around 400 people occupying an abandoned former school in Badalona.
As has happened in other municipalities in the Barcelona metropolitan area, where the number of people living on the streets, in squatted buildings or in shanty settlements is growing, B9 also expanded from a small occupation involving dozens of people into a major refuge for those evicted from other occupied industrial buildings and for newly arrived immigrants coming to the city.
