The Platform for the language has spread a case of “linguistic discrimination” – within the report annual presented jointly with Escola Valenciana and other entities – that has affected a participant in one of the demonstrations for the management of the … dana.
«I have a friend who came face to face with a national police that the rebuked because he addressed him in our language,” said the person who transmitted this complaint to the self-proclaimed ‘Catalan NGO’.
«He alleged that he was not from Valencia, but from Cuenca, and that is why he spoke castellano. Although he claimed to understand Valencian, he did not want to be spoken to like that because we were in Spain», he summarized, about the tense situation due to the language of communication between the two.
Next, after “a tug of war,” the agent asked the protester for her identity card, took her information, and “all of this after having intimidated», denounced this mediator who recommended that his friend contact the Platform for Language to «report the fact», because he believes that «the case should not be left unanswered.»
They hung up on the phone three times because of the language
This report on “linguistic rights violations” includes other conflicts with law enforcement officials, for example, someone who “they hung up the call of telephone three times” and they did not speak to him because he insisted on communicating in Valencian.
«I called the Local Police from Valencia due to altercations in the street and they refused to serve me in our language,” he said when narrating what happened. “They even told me that they had the right to speak Spanish even if I had called them speaking in Valencian,” he added.
What’s more, he reveals that “one of them, speaking in Spanish, even said that what he was speaking was Valencian.”
