As a child, my mother took me to Genoveva’s house, a seamstress who sewed my nursery clothes. I remember that the socks were mended with a wooden egg that served as a point of support and the frayed robe left it new by turning the steering wheel and the pedal with a Singer sewing machine. She was an endearing woman and, perhaps for this reason, when they ask me to dance the word dressmaker I remember Genoveva in that time of overwhelming atmosphere with the last vomiting of the dictatorship. The other day, reading the great information in La Vanguardia and Crónica Libre, the longing cracked upon learning that in Villarejo’s papers Alicia Sánchez-Camacho was known in the usual sewer as “the dressmaker”. A dressmaker makes, modifies or fixes, three verbs that define the obscure seamstress job of disgust perpetrated by Sánchez-Camacho.
Alicia was a nice lady, kissing and talkative like Genoveva, but with a huge difference, the PP senator has been a disgustingly evil seamstress. The one who was president of the popular in Catalonia appears in Villarejo’s papers and audios as the official informer of the Kingdom of Spain. In 2012, she offered Villarejo names by spinning the spinning wheel to prod pro-independence, non-independence and political rivals like Maleficent when she wanted to get rid of Sleeping Beauty..
The dressmaker is silent, embraced by her party, which keeps her paid in Madrid, the capital (almost) silent in the face of this assault on democracy. Alicia is not accused, but she is unmasked and has been unable to apologize to countless people damaged by her accusing finger.
To Sandro Rosell, unfairly put in prison for two years (two terrible years), but also to the rest of those indicated: Carles Sumarroca for being “close to Jordi Pujol”, Felip Puig “because he is key”, Enrique Lacalle for being “a double agent”, Duran i Lleida “for sending money abroad”, Artur Mas “because he has accounts in Luxembourg and Andorra”, José Antich “for being a close friend of Jaume Giró” and Giró “for being the man from La Caixa”. And to so many others. Meanwhile, Alicia continues with a deafening silence typical of dressmakers who did her job well… like Genoveva, when Francoism was supposed to be languishing.
