| Country | Catalunya, Spain |
| Year | 2018, 2019 |
| Affected group/minority | Catalans |
| Perpetrator 2018 | Javier Lambán, member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and President of the Government of Aragon 2015 |
| Perpetrator 2019 | Alejandro Fernández, leader of the People's Party of Catalonia |
| Type of case | Hate speech |
| Type of act | Written |
| Media | Online platforms and/or communication channels |
| Reactions | No reaction |
Brief description:
In 2018, Javier Lambán, a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and President of the Government of Aragon 2015, wrote a tweet against the Catalan language:
“I begin the latest novel by Eduardo Mendoza, who writes in Spanish like most great Catalan authors."
In 2019, Alejandro Fernández, leader of the People's Party of Catalonia, wrote a hateful tweet saying:
"Faced with the separatist pretension that non-nationalists should leave Catalonia, any Spanish government should seriously encourage internal mobility so that Catalonia can once again become the preferred destination for all Spaniards."
More information on the case can be obtained from:
https://x.com/jlambanm/status/1060986964244082689 (case 2018)
https://x.com/alejandroTGN/status/1128402811736211457 (case 2019)
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