Ciutat Morta / Dead City by Xavier Artigas & Xapo Ortega Documentary investigates and unveils what is behind one of the worst cases of corruption and police torture that have occurred in Spain. This is about letting everybody know the truth! In June 2013, a group of 800 people occupied an abandoned cinema in the city centre of Barcelona to screen a documentary. They renamed the old building in honour of a girl who had committed suicide two years before: Cinema Patricia Heras. The night of February 4th, 2006, there was a baton charge in the city center of Barcelona. It was in the vicinity of an old occupied theater in which a party was taking place. Objects fell onto the police officers from the roof of the occupied building. According to what the Mayor of Barcelona said on the radio hours later, one of the officers, who was not wearing a helmet, fell into a coma by the impact of a flowerpot. The arrests that followed the tragic event suggested a vengeance. Three of the arrested young people, of South American origin, were severely tortured and deprived of liberty for two years, waiting for a trial considered full of irregularities by the defence. A forensical team certified that the object that injured the police officer fell from above, whereas the detainees were at street level. Another two detainees -Patricia and Alfredo- were not even present at the scene: they were arrested at a nearby hospital and declared suspects due to the way they were dressed.
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