This Saint George’s week we experienced, once again, the usual double exaltation of bookish passion and interpersonal love. To put your feelings back in place, remember that the roses they give you are one thing and the harsh reality is another.
So let’s take a look at a very interesting case that took place a few weeks ago in Vigo and which shows that it’s good to come down from the fig tree from time to time. One morning, at a quarter to four, someone notified 092 that there was a loud fight in a house on Calle Volta. The local police went there, who could already hear the screams from the street. A man was asking a woman to calm down. Through the window they saw how they struggled. They managed to enter the house. There was broken furniture, doors and glass everywhere. The man was bleeding from two wounds, one in the cheek and another in the mouth. He explained to the police that his wife – they were a couple, then – had hit him with a table, and that she had threatened to kill him with an ax and a spearfishing harpoon that she was carrying. Earlier, he had smashed all the windows of the man’s car with a billet; a Renault Scenic, details the Galician press.
The woman nodded. She explained to the police that everything the man said was true, but that she had done it because she was tired of scolding him for not taking care of himself enough and asking him to please, and that he was not paying attention to her . He had done it for love, then. For love in its highest expression: I love you so much that I stab you.
She was arrested as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of “family violence” and he was taken to a hospital. No roses were exchanged this Sant Jordi, especially because in Galicia this sly custom is not at all fashionable.
