Harassment of the parents of students expelled for hanging a Spanish flag in class: "I hope you turn out to be a criminal and you have to see him in jail or hospital"

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The incident involving the

(for one day) of a group of students from the La Salle school in Palma for hanging a Spanish flag in support of the soccer team and refusing to take it down when their Catalan teacher told them to do so, has already been reported. the educational field.

What began as a one-off episode, a domestic conflict denounced on social networks by some of the parents of those

has ended up being political trench ammunition, fueling an unpredictable snowball in 48 hours.

And turning both the parents and the teacher of the course into the target of threats and insults from people sheltered in the shield of the networks.

"They have insulted us, they have pointed at us and

what we believe is an violation of the right to free education and without ideology of our children," one of the parents of the course tells this newspaper.

“We have no other intention or desire to politicize it;

on the contrary, we believe that the school did politicize a merely sporting gesture such as hanging the flag, which had the permission of the head of studies ».

However, the matter has been escalating.

"They send us messages calling us

... our son, who is a minor, they call him retarded" and

or they say he deserves "two hosts ", explains one of the parents while showing some of those messages, sent in response to the Twitter thread that he created from his personal account to tell the incident "as a father" and, he stresses, "without disrespecting or naming anyone."

Among these messages, some are especially aggressive, such as those who ask that custody of their child be withdrawn or they blurt out: “I hope you get a criminal and you have to see him in jail or in the hospital.

You deserve it".

against the teacher

The parents have not given up their efforts and maintain their complaint and claim before the Ministry of Education.

They have also received shows of support, although all of a private nature.

Yesterday they registered their letter with the Government, which they already sent on Friday by email without anyone yet giving them an answer.

They are not the only ones who have been threatened and pointed out from radical environments in recent hours.

and a cascade of serious insults, calling her "scum" and going so far as to warn her, also from network accounts, to

.

Of her The image of her of her family has been exposed, encouraging them to "go for her" and very vexatious insults have been dedicated to her.

Unlike what has happened so far with the parents of the school, the attacks on the teacher have been officially condemned by the Balearic Government.

The president,

, has expressed her personal support for the teacher.

"The centers are the ones that set the rules of coexistence in the classrooms and our teachers must be respected and their work protected," said the socialist politician, who considers it "intolerable" that teachers are attacked.

The facts

The regional government yesterday ordered

to file a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office to take action for hate crimes committed against the teacher at the Palma school, a center with a long tradition where classes were resumed yesterday without incident.

The flag, yes, had been removed from the classroom.

The center maintains that the students were not expelled for hanging the flag but for a disciplinary matter for stubbornly and defiantly disobeying the rule.

However, the parents reiterate that this was not the case.

They maintain that in other courses there have been no problems with the flags and that it was the Catalan teacher who refused to teach, despising the flag.

"The

, which some teacher called 'rag', were constant all week," explains one of the mothers, who indicates that even before the expulsion they had already complained.

As they maintain, the head of studies gave permission to place the Spanish flag and he himself put a sign next to it that said "Vamos selección" to make clear the sporting nature.

"Our children were expelled without giving us an explanation and we still do not receive the protection of public institutions," denounces the affected mother.

Chief prosecutor: "They are minors"

The Balearic Islands Prosecutor's Office had not received any complaint yesterday about the hate campaigns and verbal attacks unleashed around the incident of the Spanish flag in La Salle.

However, it is expected that, as announced yesterday, the Autonomous Community Lawyer will file a complaint protecting the teacher at the center, a subsidized school.

"We will have to see what the complaint says, but we will investigate everything that corresponds to us," the superior prosecutor of the Balearic Islands,

explained yesterday to this newspaper, who does not rule out that the investigation extends to all threats, including those received by the parents, although he called for prudence and did not want to anticipate events.

Barceló did want to emphasize that the matter is especially sensitive because

and that therefore it is necessary to act with great caution, with greater protection and secrecy and to carefully calibrate everything that happened before acting.

Predictably, the Lawyers will denounce an alleged

in the insults and campaigns on the networks in the last two days against the teacher and the center, events that have been condemned by the main parties in the Islands.

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