Hate case

Barcelona 2023: Catalunya compared with “Nazi Germany”

28.08.2024  |  Spain  |  Submitted by: Plataforma per la Llengua

Country                                                Catalunya, Spain              

Year                                                       2023

Affected group/minority              Catalans

Perpetrator                                        Ignacio Garriga, VOX's General Secretary and member of Parliament in Catalunya

Type of case                                       Hate speech

Type of act                                          Verbal

Media:                                                  Traditional media (printed, radio, TV)

Reactions:                                           No reaction

 

Brief description:            

In a speech in the Parliament, Mr Garriga compared today's Catalunya "with Nazi Germany". Such comparisons, however, are not an isolated incident. The malicious comparison between Catalans and nazis has been used to defame as an orchestrated campaign. The links below will allow the reader to access different news and opinion articles making comparisons like:

"Catalan separatists are a horde of "fascists, Nazis and Ku-Klus-Kan with barretina"; 

"The Gestapo of language "The supremacism that hides behind so much parapolice linguistic norm is worrying";

"The facts prove me right: the separatists are Nazis. To call them anti-fascists is an insult to the memory of those who were so."

 

More information on the case can be obtained from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHKplCZdWLk  (video of Mr Garriga's speech)

https://www.libertaddigital.com/espana/2021-12-13/los-indepes-catalanes-son-una-horda-de-fascistas-nazis-y-ku-klus-kan-con-barretina-6846540/

https://www.vozpopuli.com/opinion/independentismo-cataluna-vox.html

https://theobjective.com/elsubjetivo/opinion/2023-03-29/gestapo-lengua/

https://cronicaglobal.elespanol.com/pensamiento/20230407/la-gestapo-de-lo-intolerapla-inacceptapla/754554551_13.html

 

Photo:

Europa Press @ https://www.libertaddigital.com/

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