The protest of a cheated old woman: flowers with thorns for the bank manager

SOURCE: www.arahalinformacion.es

Antonia Brenes, a retired woman from a village Arahal-agricultural inhabitants of 20.00 near Seville, the capital of Andalucia takes more than a month at the gates of La Caixa, one of the three largest banks in the country-after feeling cheated. She lost all the savings of her working life because of the bank according to his complaint.


She thought she got € 33,000 fixed term, but without knowing it was buying preferred shares, a product of high risk which was not informed at any time by the bank. In protest, the old Antonia Brenes was installed with an umbrella and an inflatable pool at the doors of the bank, where he plans to spend the entire summer.

As it thousands of people in Spain have been shortchanged in recent years, and now begin to occur early court decisions in favor of the defrauded, after years of legal struggle.


Antonia is an example of the crisis. Rural working woman barely literate. His whole life has been harsh working conditions in the field during the Franco era and later, with the intention of building a better future for herself and her children, and achieve a fee with which to qualify for a pension that guarantees a certain stability in retirement.

Purposes here now can not meet because of the greed of the bank. These practices have become common in the last decade, most Spanish banks, which now will be helped by the EU with more than 100,000 million.

On Tuesday 14 August the whole town is called a protest to support it. The branch manager has asked you to leave but she is still there.

Symbolically, the old woman delivered each morning to the director of the bank office with a dried flower spikes, which are easily found in the fields near the village. It is the symbol of their protest, so next Tuesday, August 14 all the people in that demonstrations will dry flowers with thorns to the bank manager.