Can Tunis, història d'un gueto | betevé

Can Tunis was born as an integrating neighborhood project, but it ended up being a huge drug supermarket. Paco Toledo, director of the documentary ‘Can Tunis’, got to know the neighborhood in 2001. He remembers that the school teachers made an architectural project to take the children who lived in the shacks at the foot of Montjuïc to class. The project, consisting of two-story houses with a patio and an area for social life, like a Greek theater, won a FAD design award. But the introduction of heroin to the gypsy world and the presence of addicts who came to the neighborhood to buy and consume drugs, degraded the environment in a short time and caused the integrating project to fail. The negligence of the Administration also had something to do with it. Thus, Can Tunis became a ghetto for the people who lived there. In Can Tunis there were businesses, working people and entrepreneurs, but Toledo's documentary showed the most differentiating aspect of the neighborhood, the social and personal degradation of some of the residents due to the sale and consumption of drugs. From 2001, the neighborhood was to disappear to make way for the Port of Barcelona facilities. The destruction was done in parts: every time a family left the neighborhood, a house was demolished. In this way, the families of Can Tunis were relocated in small groups to Sant Adrià and Badalona. This situation further degraded the neighborhood to the point that new people arrived to occupy the rubble in order to try to enter the relocation plans. Can Tunis disappeared permanently in 2003. Subscribe to betevé's Youtube channel:    / betevé   Download the betevé app: http://app.beteve.cat/ Follow betevé on: Instagram: https://goo.gl/rkU4S2 Twitter: https://goo.gl/HdKjiy Facebook: https://goo.gl/rpKwYv Web: https://goo.gl/VEqMo8