The way in which the Generalitat has treated the Andalusian nurse who criticized on social networks the requirement to prove the mastery of Catalan to aspire to a place in the regional public health reflects starkly the system of harassment and institutional harassment to the dissenting with the nationalism that operates in Catalonia. With the young Begoña Suárez the Government of Aragonès, partner of the PSC and President Sánchez, has crossed the line of interference of the public powers
s in individual freedoms.
The last chapter has been a harsh interrogation as "alleged accused"
to which an instructor of the Institut Català de Salut subjected Suárez and the three companions who appeared in the video posted by her on TikTok. Fifty minutes and 40 questions asked entirely in Catalan, despite the fact that the nurse is not a Catalan speaker.
When the State ceases to guarantee the rights and freedoms of citizens and begins to use all the mechanisms at its disposal to standardize them, cases like this happen. Begoña Suárez, 25, was hired in July in the paediatric area of Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona, like another thousand nurses who in recent years have travelled from Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla to Catalonia to reinforce the deficient staff of their hospitals.
Shortly before the temporary contract ran out, and faced with the requirement to prove the C1 level of Catalan, the young woman recorded a video complaining about the requirement.
She then started a campaign of pointing out in networks but also from the nationalist parties, their related acronyms (including UGT) and the institutions, headed by the Minister Manel Balcells, who branded her statements as "intolerable" and announced the opening of a file against her.
With the young woman on leave due to anxiety and within the framework of a "reserved" investigation, on March 28 there was an interrogation supervised by the Generalitat through an instructor that knowledgeable sources describe as "aggressive" and in a "police" tone. Suarez has not seen his contract renewed nor probably intended to:
Crushing a citizen, especially if he belongs to a minority, is easy for power and painful for the victim.
, forced to mutate into heroin if she wants to keep her battle alive. The nurse, understandably, has left Catalonia. And the Generalitat has managed to send a vigorous warning to anyone who dares to question the exclusionary policies of nationalism, for which language is, once the process has failed, the real workhorse. That the interrogation of nurses took place only in Catalan denotes an ostentation in the abuse unbecoming of a democracy. Xenophobia against the Andalusian is, from Pujol to the recurring jokes of TV3, the common element of a project confronted with freedoms.
Unwittingly, the figure of Begoña Suárez today draws the line that distinguishes democrats from authoritarians.