The Mossos d’Esquadra claim to already have “clear images” of the authors who hung various posters mocking Pasqual Maragall’s Alzheimer’s in various places in the city of Barcelona, ??according to what El Món has advanced to RAC1. Thanks to these images taken by security cameras, the Catalan police will soon have the names of the perpetrators and will know if the campaign has to do with a political party, the same information points out.
Specifically, the posters showed the current ERC candidate for Mayor of Barcelona, ??Ernest Maragall, and his brother, Pasqual Maragall, together with the phrase Out with Alzheimer’s from Barcelona, ??alluding to the disease suffered by the former president of the Generalitat and former mayor of the Catalan capital.
The mayor himself considered in an interview on March 10, at which time the information came out, that the posters are a representation of “extreme political violence.” In an interview with Jordi Basté in El món to RAC1, Maragall expressed that they are not just an offense against his brother or himself: “They offend the hundreds of thousands of Alzheimer’s patients that there may be in the world and that are used as currency of change on a political scale”.
The posters appeared around the offices of Calabria and Consell de Cent, as well as in the Casal del Eixample, and at the Aerobús stop in Plaza Catalunya and on some trees in the Les Corts neighborhood.
Maragall and ERC received messages of solidarity from their own party, in addition to that of other comrades of a different ideology, who also condemned the events. This was the case of the Junts candidate for mayor, Xavier Trias, who described the action as being “loaded with indignity.” “My condemnation and rejection of this unpresentable attack and all the solidarity with President Maragall, and Ernest Maragall,” he assured. The PSC candidate, Jaume Collboni; the candidate of Ciutadans, Anna Grau, or the candidate of the Catalan PP, Daniel Sirera.
