09 August 2019 04:31 PM

‘Top manta’ street sellers ask for an end to ‘racist police persecution’

Vendors cast doubt on meeting with council’s potential to find a solution to the conflict

The city council met with ‘top manta’ representatives on Wednesday

Irregular street sellers demonstrate on Rambla in response to crackdown by local authority

With the new police crackdown on illegal selling, spokesman says sellers have no alternative and calls on mayor to "remember her promises"

Some hundred officers from three forces again patrolled key areas of the city to discourage illegal street selling

54 arrests, and large amounts of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, weapons and money confiscated

A fashion label employing undocumented immigrants kicks off a crowdfunding to help boost the project