A fierce political quarrel broke out in a family in Spain Catalonia He was harassed and abused for trying to ensure that a quarter of the courses at the school where their 5-year-old son attended was taught in Spanish.
The family’s actions provoked an angry response from some Catalan nationalists who believed their position was an attack on the language and culture of the region.
According to media reports, the family became the subject of a WhatsApp group, which recommended confirming the identity of the child and his parents.one person On Twitter that their house should be stoned, although Another call to avoid this little boy, Added: “When classes are taught in Spanish, other children should leave their class. If we don’t react, they will kill our language.”
Last weekend, the Catalan High Court ordered the Regional Ministry of Education and the principal of the school in the town of Cane de Mar to take measures to protect the boy and his identity.
During his visit to the school last Thursday, Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray, who served as the Minister of Education in the pro-independence regional government, said that he condemned “Threats or violence of any kind”.
But he criticized the decision of the Catalan High Court to order 25% of the courses to teach Spanish. “Unbearable Attack”And added: “The Catalan school model is a successful model, it guarantees our social cohesion, fairness and equal opportunities.”
Fernando Grande Marasca, the Minister of the Interior of the coalition government led by the Spanish Socialist Party, warned that “any threat to coexistence” would be investigated.
Salvador Illa, the former central government minister who is currently the leader of the Catalan Socialist Party, also criticized the attack on the family and said that the school needs to obey the court’s ruling.
“This is not against Catalan; it is about compliance with the ruling, and [regional education system] It is still guaranteed that Catalan will become the focus of education in Catalonia,” Ira said on Thursday.
The Spanish right seized this incident as evidence of anti-Spanish discrimination in Catalonia. The separatist government attempted to unilaterally split in 2017.
Pablo Casado, the leader of the right-wing People’s Party, leads the national polls, but has only 3 members in the 135-seat Catalan Parliament. He said: “Today in Spain, We are suffering from a serious language isolation case involving 5-year-old children.”
Casado said that the Catalan government is implementing “linguistic apartheid” and accused the minority government led by the Socialist Party of “accomplices in silence” because it relies on the support of some Catalan nationalists in Congress.
The rise of the far-right Vox party was partly driven by the Catalan independence crisis, and a demonstration was held outside the regional parliament on Tuesday night. It stated that it would no longer allow “distorted separatism to continue attacking Kanette’s little boy and his family with complete impunity.”
Language issues also have a place in the central government’s efforts to obtain next year’s budget through Parliament. Last month, the Pedro Sánchez government tried to appease the left-wing Catalan Republican party that leads the regional government. It is proposed that at least 6% of streaming platform content must use the common official language of Spain: Catalan, Galician or Basque.
