«I go out with the uniform and I notice those faces of contempt simply because I am wearing green and with the flag of Spain. They disgust us more than hate». The Catalan civil guard Mila Cívico, 31 years of service and based in Barcelona, finds no trace of that “democratic normality” that, according to the Government of Pedro Sánchez, has been installed in Catalonia thanks to the deployment of a territorial policy based on the granting of the wills claimed by ERC, which has resulted in the pardon of the leaders who promoted 1-O, in the suppression of the crime of sedition and the opening of a bilateral negotiation with the pro-independence Executive of ERC to explore an agreement leading to a vote on the political future of the region.

«There is still animosity. My children cannot freely say at school that their mother is a civil guard. There is a fixation of the Government for suppressing us. The fact that there are no acts of vandalism now with the same regularity, while the Government has been agreeing, does not mean that they will not be repeated after the next elections. We are at the mercy of the desires of street violence. always on alert. Here we do not live calmly like a civil guard in Cuenca. Since 1-O they label us torturers, animals, the worst. The contempt is still felt. And we are only workers who represent our country and who try to prevent a vote contrary to the Constitution”, laments this member of the State Security Forces.

Engarza Carlos Vegas, Catalan judge “exiled in Madrid”. After a decade practicing in Catalonia, in March he left for the capital, leaving his family in Barcelona after being singled out by the Generalitat for expressing opinions contrary to the independence movement on social networks and for not abstaining in a procedure that affected the secessionist opinion maker Pilar Rahola.. «I do not judge based on whether I like an ideology or not. It was Kafkaesque, ”he denounces.

“We saved democracy in 2017 and that's how they paid us”, deplores this social magistrate who the Generalitat tried to challenge without success for all the procedures in which it was involved and for whom, also unsuccessfully, he claimed a sanction, dismissed by the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ).

«I suffered an unjustified attack from the Minister of Justice with the complicity of my own colleagues, because there is a group of judges in Catalonia who is sympathetic to the independence cause.. I am a Catalan refugee. They have not put a gun to my temple to leave, but I have not left voluntarily either. I had to leave to distance myself, despite the fact that I feel very committed to Catalonia and the things that happen there hurt me, because where they don't want you, you don't have to be, ”he says.

“Isn't it surprising that a judge is leaving Barcelona or that the reading levels of Catalan children are among the worst in Spain?” reflects the magistrate to flirt with another sphere in which appeasement is not perceived: education.

The Government tolerated that the Generalitat disobeyed the ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) to implement 25% of Spanish in all schools by avoiding claiming the execution of the ruling. He participated -through the PSC- in the Government's legal maneuver to circumvent the sentence and the High Educational Inspectorate, dependent on the Ministry of Education, unflinchingly attends the hardening of immersion, which ERC carries out to veto the use of Spanish in any school space.

The professor of the University of Barcelona, Jorge Calero. PA

Ana Losada, spokesperson for Escuela de Todos, a platform created to promote the execution of the sentence that should put an end to monolingualism, diagnoses: “Not only has the law not been applied in Catalonia, it has been agreed not to apply it. Many Catalans want to stop being orphans of the Government and feel like full-fledged members of Catalonia. May the struggle to enforce the Law in this land no longer fall on our shoulders.

«The Catalan peace of Sánchez has served nationalism to reinforce the persecution of those who speak Spanish in educational centers. And that gives him the status of dissident in the Catalan educational system.

This teacher says he is “very distinguished”. «They have little room to harm me, because I am an official, but they do it in what they can. No positions are assigned to me and they have warned me that I would avoid many problems if I gave the class in Catalan ».

It concludes that in Catalonia “there is no normalization of civil life” and notes that “the support of the central government continues to develop its agenda, which involves continuing to tighten the screw and maintaining a system of exclusion of Spanish.”

«The Government is especially belligerent with the language. The official trend is that you have to speak Catalan even in private and with families. In my center the use of Spanish is not allowed beyond the disobedience that I exercise. In the last four years, the Generalitat has come to promote the denunciation of Spanish-speaking teachers with the installation of mailboxes in which students can identify teachers who, having committed to teaching their class in Catalan, decide to use the two official languages interchangeably. The university centers are forced to send the Government reports with the “linguistic incidents” detected to “correct” them.

Jorge Calero, Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Barcelona, considers that, since 2018 “and with the support of the coalition government”, “the use of Catalan as a political tool of nationalism” has been deepened with actions that “have fragmented the Spanish university system and have caused a loss of internationalization of the Catalan university”.. Actions such as “the requirement of the C1 level of Catalan for teachers”, “the commitment of Catalan universities to increase the teaching of degrees in Catalan to reach 80% in 2025”, and “the link between the greater use of Catalan and financing”. The new Organic Law of the University System (LOSU) states that “linguistic singularity will be financed”.

“Catalan universities, and in particular their government bodies, which were tools in favor of the procés, are now tools in favor of independence in the long term”, adds the professor, who highlights the “deficit of freedom of expression on Catalan campuses with frequently violent attacks on associations such as S'ha Acabat”.

Óscar Vivas, health worker in Barcelona. Araba

“The Catalan independence movement is very totalitarian and tries to ensure that no one gets out of that unique thought that they want to establish,” says the president of this association of young constitutionalists, Júlia Calvet, who has suffered first-hand attacks from the most radical secessionism.

The university student recalls that “separatism continues to control institutional, media, economic or educational power”. It is very difficult to get out of those four walls and, if you do, you risk being singled out”, he deepens.

“Nothing has changed,” agrees Óscar Vivas, a health worker who coordinated a lawsuit by 42 professionals against the oppositions of the Generalitat that set Catalan as an “exclusive requirement” to be able to compete in a public square.

«The paradigmatic case of the Andalusian nurse only made a problem that already existed more visible. There are many temporary workers asking that the Catalan requirement be suppressed. Many people whose daily lives are affected by the attempts of the Catalan Administration to coercively impose their ideological positions and to turn Catalonia into a monolingual region”, indicates Ángel Escolano, president of Civic Coexistence.

Pepe Domingo, president of Impulso Ciudadano, considers that “the solution to the danger of independence – which continues to exist – is not to weaken the defense mechanisms of the State but to reinforce them with legislative measures and, above all, with a government action aimed at correcting the constitutional disloyalty that, unfortunately, seems to be in the DNA of its political representatives”.

And Elda Mata, president of the Catalan Civil Society, believes that “the responsibility for Catalonia to continue to be conditioned by nationalism falls, first of all, on those who work and promote its survival. And secondly, about those who, having the obligation to ensure the rights of all Spaniards equally, have looked the other way whenever they have agreed to give in to nationalism, leaving the majority of Catalans helpless». «The first will continue in their line, they have not stopped announcing it. We do not lose hope that the seconds will rectify, “he claims.

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