The JuntsxCat spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, has announced that she has filed a complaint for death threats received mainly through social networks for her gesture of removing the Spanish flag in the press room of the Lower House before an appearance of his before the journalists.
In an interview on the Cafè d’Idees program on 2 and Ràdio 4, Nogueras defended that gesture and asked for respect for it. “Just as I respect the spokespersons who go out with the flag, I would like them to respect me that I do not want to go out with it, let’s respect everything, all the options,” claimed the independence leader, who also explained that it was not the first time that he did and has rejected that the gesture constitutes contempt for the flag.
“I decided a long time ago that I would go out speaking Catalan and not accompanied by the Spanish flag, that does not mean that I despise the Spanish flag,” Nogueras insisted, for whom the episode has been used to bend a “false” story of contempt “fed by the extreme right”. “This has meant that in 24 hours he received more than 5,000 death threats fueled by this false story of contempt,” denounced the post-convergent spokesperson.
For this reason, as he explained, he had to file a complaint. “I am delighted to do it, we respond to any attack,” warned Nogueras, who also explained that no one has threatened him on the street in Catalonia because of that gesture, but “in Madrid, yes.”
The events occurred on February 21 when Nogueras entered the press room of Congress and moved the flag away from the lectern, which had presided over the room until then, leaving only the European flag in the camera shot. “This is very hooked”, she blurted out before starting the press conference, in which she was already asked about her attitude. “It was very close,” she insisted. “And the European one?” asked a journalist, to which the Junts spokeswoman ironically claimed that “this one was not so close and it looks very cool.” Then she Nogueras added that she represented the flag of Europe “much more” than that of Spain.
The episode went viral and was commented on in all the gatherings of those days and provoked criticism from PP, Ciudadanos and Vox, who came to request the opening of a file and the imposition of sanctions on the deputy. In addition, the gesture was condemned by some members of the Government such as the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, or the Minister of Finance and Public Function, María Jesús Montero, and also by Esquerra, whose spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, reminded the deputy that the flags “do not feed or cure or console”.
