Neighbors and businessmen victims of 'procés': "We are here as in the days of Numancia"

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The Supreme Court has managed to stop the process in the institutions, but not in the streets or in the ordinary life of many Catalans, where social fracture and environmental pressure alter the coexistence between neighbors. As the sentence explained, independence was a hoax used by political leaders to negotiate with the Government, however, it is obvious that this "reverie" remains a silent nightmare for a part of the population that is meant against secession and which, therefore, faces strong psychological pressure in their workplaces, municipalities or environments.

Eva Trías, the procés, had his life overwhelmed the day he decided to host a part of the Civil Guard detachment sent on the occasion of the 1-O to Catalonia in his campsite in La Escala, which had been expelled of some hotels after charges.

"Since that day we have not stopped having problems. It has been continuous: threats, insults, warnings that we were going to burn the campsite," he describes. A hell of pressure that they have had to "get used to" and that is part of their sad everyday life. Even harder if possible when it occurs in the town where you live.

"The machaque, the graffiti or the threats have not been symbolic," he says in line with the sentence. "The damage in society is not contemplated in all this," says a person who has filed complaints for receiving death threats.

"Places where we have not been allowed to eat"

Eva has lost count of the times she has been insulted or intimidated. Also of the numerous neighbors who have stopped greeting her and have her family indicated as stunned. "We have found places where we have not been allowed to eat," he laments. This complicit hostility has jaded them. There have even been times when they have considered leaving to rebuild their lives. His mortal sin was to shelter the Civil Guard. A capital sin in independence Catalonia.

"It's been years that have done a lot of damage, even if they say that everything has been theater. A lot of people didn't think it was like that and at that time nobody dared to tell them what was happening. They were the owners of the world and made us feel like the bad guys , and we were against the good guys. "

Cases like yours now have shelter in the new project of Catalan Civil Society, a platform affected by the sovereignty process "not to forget the social, personal and political damage that has led to the attempt to break up." And that aims to bring together people who have felt violated by independence at a psychological, economic or social level.

Meritxell is the fictitious name of a newly retired businesswoman who had to take her business out of Catalonia after suffering the "imposition" of the administration for not having her website in Catalan. That, he says, excluded her from receiving subsidies - even though the clients she addressed were mostly from the rest of Spain. But the definitive trigger to move the company was the plans for independence and the threat that it could happen.

"We are here as in the days of Numancia," he warns of the lives of non-independence. "It is a matter of resisting, because only by resisting will we return to normal, although it will never be the same Catalonia. Neither the one that we live, nor the one we dream of. We sadly see how it is escaping from our hands."

The 'procés' has become "a dictatorship"

This businesswoman points out that the process has become a "dictatorship" that pollutes everything, also the economic world, and that it is "an imposition without the law assisting you." That is why he wants to preserve his identity, because then they "bait" with the children and are responsible for "tearing them apart" based on pressure.

María José Martínez Salaverría Sasot asks to appear with her Castilian, Basque and Catalan surnames because "or we start to face or they eat us with potatoes". He works as a tourist guide and, therefore, his contact with foreign visitors is daily. For two years he has seen his routine go through having to answer many questions about the political situation, the prisoners or the flags. Hence, its sector is strategic when giving an impression to international tourists. "They come believing that Spain oppresses the Catalans." Affirmation that tries to refute with "data" or information when asked.

It denounces a "oppressive" social and work environment within its sector, in which the history of Catalonia is presented in a misrepresented way and that purchases the official propaganda of the process . That has resulted in "internal pressures" that are sometimes "terrifying," he says, and that produces "accusations." "If you don't shut up, you are very marked," "they call you a façade" or "travel agencies speak badly about you." "This affects you a lot."

"What is clear living here is that they are pursuing a republic in which today the constitutionalists have already left for exile, or we remain even quieter under stone and traveling in the back of the bus," said Maria.

Felix , fictitious name, is a Primary teacher. He denounces the daily "harassment" to which he feels subjected by a part of his companions and the inspection of the area, because he is not "from here", of Catalonia. It has already happened in two centers since the plaza was taken out and he is fed up, because they make his life impossible. "And that they have never caught me speaking in Spanish."

He explains that, for example, he "opens and closes files" without accusing him of anything to feed him. "They put me on a blacklist." Why they don't "let him work" normally and why he's under suspicion. "It is a harassment to pressure me to leave. Most people who approved in my year and was from outside Catalonia have already left. For having endured and resisted, they have had that fixation with me, but nobody has to expel me from where I want to be".

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