The request of a young man on the
terrace of a bar
in
Gandía
on September 18 has led to a
complaint of linguistic discrimination
from the
Plataforma per la Llengua
to the General Directorate of Commerce and Consumption of the Generalitat Valenciana.
The reason is that they refused to attend to him for
asking in Valencian
and they resisted giving him the claim sheet.
According to the Platform, the young man, accompanied by a friend, sat on the terrace of a bar in
the Grao neighborhood
and ordered
"un te roig amb gel"
(a red tea with ice). In the first place the waiter "pretended that he did not understand him" and then he replied:
"We are in Spain and we speak Spanish"
, adding that
if he did not "he spoke Spanish it was because he did not feel like it"
, according to the complaint of this association that defines itself as the "ONG del català".
A second waiter joined the discussion and "with a threatening tone" intervened on two occasions to repeat
"this is Spain and it is spoken in the national language
.
"
In addition, adds the Platform, they refused to give the client the complaint form until he called the Local Police and, at that time, they provided it.
The Platform per la Llengua has asked the
Office of Linguistic Rights
and the General Directorate of Commerce and Consumption to intervene in the case, to process the claim of the affected person "and to initiate a sanctioning file if it is confirmed that the rights of the user have been violated. consumer".
The entity does consider that the bar has breached Legislative Decree 1/2019, which determines that consumers "have the
right to use any of the official languages
" of the Valencian Community, and Law 4/1983, which makes explicit the right to express yourself in Valencian in a store and not be discriminated against for it.
To this he adds that the establishment could have committed a minor infraction of the Consumers Statute because it refused to attend a normal request from a customer in a bar, such as ordering a "red tea with ice".
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