The video with which Real Madrid responded to the president of Barça, Joan Laporta, yesterday has transcended the political sphere to the point that the Government of the Generalitat has labeled it as “indecent ‘fake new'”, as “crude manipulation of history ” and of “offense and insult” the four and a half minute video that the white club released and has urged it to withdraw the video. In addition, the spokesperson for the Catalan Executive, PatrÃcia Plaja, has called on Real Madrid to apologize.
With the images, Real Madrid accuses FC Barcelona of maintaining affinities with Francoism. In addition, Florentino Pérez’s club rejects any connection with the dictator. “With Franco, it took Madrid 15 years to win the League and it was dismantled in the Civil War, players were killed, detained and exiled, as the Santiago Bernabéu documentary recounts,” the video says.
“It is such a crude manipulation of history, that it seems from a manual,” the spokeswoman stressed this afternoon at the press conference after the usual meeting of the Government on Tuesdays. Similarly, Plaja has been upset, making it clear that she does not consider the response to be typical of a top-level club: “It is worrying, irresponsible and an offense to the people who suffered under the Franco regime.”
One of the arguments used by Barcelona fans to refute the arguments of the club led by Florentino Pérez is the execution of the president of Barça in 1936, Josep Suñol, something that “it may be that in Madrid they do not remember”, Plaja has slipped. “It is irresponsible, an offense and an insult to the thousands of people who suffered under the Franco regime, including FC Barcelona, ​​beginning with the president at the time, Josep Suñol, who was shot by the regime and perhaps Real Madrid will not. remember”, Plaja replied before adding that “it would be nice if Real Madrid removed the video and apologized”.
The box of thunder was opened yesterday by Laporta. In his appearance before the media to account for the payments of 7.3 million euros made to companies related to the former vice president of the Technical Arbitration Committee, José MarÃa EnrÃquez Negreira, between 2001 and 2018, the president of Barça stated that Real Madrid was for years the team of the regime. ““For 70 years, those who have designated the people who had to deliver justice on the pitch have been either ex-members or ex-players or ex-directors, and sometimes all at once, of Real Madridâ€, he added.
