The Supreme Court has declared itself incompetent to investigate the former leader of the PP Pablo Casado for his statements about Spanish in Catalan classrooms due to the fact that he has lost his status as a graduate, since Casado resigned his seat in Congress when he lost the PP presidency in early April.
The Generalitat and JxCat sued him for libel and slander -also for incitement to hatred in the case of the party- for having stated that there were teachers in Catalonia with “instructions not to release children to the toilet because they speak Spanish”.
In an order, the Supreme concludes that “the complaints presented should be archived without prejudice to the right of the complainants to reproduce their petition before the corresponding body.”
Both parties sued Casado for his words against Catalan teachers and sovereignist parties with “hoaxes” that “dehumanize” them and present them as “ruthless monsters”, according to the plaintiffs in the midst of controversy over the sentence to be delivered on the 25th % of classes in Spanish.
“Can it be tolerated that there are teachers with instructions not to let children go to the bathroom because they speak in Spanish? Can it be tolerated that there are children who put stones in their backpacks because they speak Spanish at recess?” Married said.
And he added: “Can it be tolerated that the children of the Civil Guard and the National Police are pointed out in class and told that these children cannot be integrated? Well, that is what they are doing, not only ERC and JxCat and the CUP, but the party that makes them essential at a national level, which is the PSOE”.
