The premises, located in the center of the neighborhood of Gracia, dawned with graffiti and posters that accused him of an “anticatalanista” position.
A Barcelona ice cream shopwhich was founded by a Argentinean, Dawn vandalized After being accused of discrimination. The complaint was made by the district councilor of the Catalan Independence Party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), Guillem Roma, after a alleged treatment his partner received for speaking Catalan when he went to buy ice cream.
The premises, located in the center of the neighborhood of Gracia, had painted and posters that accused him of a position “Anticatalanista” and “Discriminatory”. The graffiti called to the franchise of “Fucking fascists”while a series of stickers put: “This place does not respect Catalan” and “Tourism kills the city”.
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The councilor’s public complaint on social networks
According to the councilor, The incident occurred on August 17 In full festival of grace, one of the most important annual events in the neighborhood.
He indicated that when his partner spoke to an employee of the premises, he replied that “It was a rude one for speaking in Catalan”since they were “In the kingdom of Spain”. “The person who has treated us was a provocation professional”Rome said in the publication.
This, however, was not an isolated event: three weeks ago, another client had complained not to have been treated in Catalan via social networks. The place responded to these accusations and described the client of “Foolish” and “Violent”.
In this way, Rome reported that he opened a claim before the Department of Linguistic Policy and the Office of Non -Discrimination of the City of Barcelona and that denounced the case before the Catalan consumer agency. On the other hand, He thanked different political entities and parties such as Òmnium Cultural, Platform per la Flengua, ERC, Popular Union candidacy (CUP) or Party of the Socialists of Catalonia (PSC) their support after the complaint.
Due to the incident, Google’s profile of the premises was filled with reviews, many of them negative and with low scores, such as “Thank you for sharing. It is necessary to enforce our language.” For now, The franchise has not made comments.
Source: Ambito
