When I was little, my mother took me to Genoveva’s house, a seamstress who sewed my baby clothes. I remember that he sewed the socks with a wooden egg that served as a point of support and the worn-out dressing gown was made new by giving him the steering wheel and the pedal with a Singer sewing machine. She was an endearing woman and, perhaps for this reason, when the word couturier is brought up to me, I remember Genoveva in that time of overwhelming atmosphere with the last vomits of the dictatorship. The other day, reading the great information from La Vanguardia and Crónica Libre, I was filled with nostalgia when I learned that in Villarejo’s papers, Alicia Sánchez-Camacho was known in the common sewers as “la modista”. A seamstress makes, modifies or mends, three verbs that define the dark work of a seamstress in the mess perpetrated by Sánchez-Camacho.
Alicia was a nice, kissable and talkative lady like Genoveva, but with an abysmal difference, the PP senator has been a seamstress of disgusting evil. The one who was president of the Popular Party in Catalonia appears in Villarejo’s papers and audios as the official voice of the Kingdom of Spain. In 2012, he offered names to Villarejo moving the spinning wheel with force to stab pro-independence, non-independence and political rivals like Maleficent when he 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 the countless people harmed by her accusing finger.
To Sandro Rosell, unjustly put in prison for two years (two terrible years), but also to the rest of those pointed out: to Carles Sumarroca for being “intimate with Jordi Pujol”, to Felip Puig “because he is key”, to Enrique Lacalle for being “a double agent”, to Duran and Lleida “for passing money abroad”, to Artur Mas “because he has accounts in Luxembourg and Andorra”, to José Antich “for being a close friend of Jaume Giró” and to Giró ” to be the man of La Caixa”. And to many others.
Meanwhile, Alicia continues with a deafening silence typical of seamstresses who did the job well… like Genoveva, when Francoism was supposed to be winding down.
