Thursday, March 28

A judge imputes Pablo Casado for his hoaxes about the Catalan school


A Barcelona judge has charged the former leader of the PP Pablo Casado with a crime of libel in relation to the hoaxes he launched on the Catalan school at the end of last year as a result of the case of the family of a student from Canet de Mar (Barcelona) to which the Justice granted 25% of Castilian in class.

Pablo Casado feeds the hoaxes that speak of children tortured in Catalonia for speaking Spanish

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As it has progressed the daily ara and elDiario.es has been able to confirm, the judge has summoned Casado as investigated for next January 30 by videoconference. Judge Santiago García has also asked the PP for the full recording of the act where Casado made his statements about the Catalan “and the list of media that attended” it.

The case arose from the lawsuit filed by the Generalitat against the then leader of the PP, who was later ousted from the party’s command by Alberto Núñez Feijóo.

The events date back to the court decision to impose 25% of Spanish in an entire classroom at the request of a single family from Canet, which led to a campaign by the right and the extreme right against linguistic immersion in Catalan. In this context, Casado fed the hoaxes about the school in Catalan by assuring in a political act that minors who speak Spanish are prohibited from going to the bathroom.

Two days later, Casado acknowledged that he had actually read “news from ten years ago”, which, in his opinion, shows that the case of the Canet de Mar (Barcelona) school “is not new”. By then the Government and the independence parties had already announced legal action against Casado.

The one about urine was not the only hoax raised to political speech by Casado. He also said that “the children of the national police and civil guards are pointed out in class and it is said that they cannot be integrated”, in reference to the case of Sant Andreu de la Barca filed by the judge, and that there are children that they are given “stones in their backpacks” for speaking Spanish in the courtyard.

The one with the backpacks and the stones is a narrative resource critical of nationalism that originated in 1997 not in Catalonia but in the Biscayan town of Zeanuri. A group of parents denounced that the monitors of a summer camp loaded their children with stones for speaking Spanish among themselves, something that the director denied.

Casado transferred this complaint from almost 25 years ago to the Catalonia of the 21st century in the framework of the political dispute as a result of the judicial decision to force a center in Canet to teach 25% of classes in Spanish in a P class. -5 because the family of a minor requested it.

In its complaint, the Generalitat considered that in the words of Casado “the incitement to hostility against the population of Catalonia is clearly confirmed for having its own official language, Catalan, constitutionally recognized, and that coexists with the Spanish language”.

Casado’s speech, the letter abounded, “manifests a clear discriminatory and degrading desire, directed against a part of the population, for cultural or linguistic reasons, with sufficient capacity to incite hatred against them, or harm their dignity.”



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