Juancho Armas Marcelo is not just an unknown character. Besides being a renowned journalist for the Spanish press in all different formats and a well-known writer, he is also a member of the Hispanic American Academy of Sciences and Arts. That is the reason why his last writing under the name of “An extraterrestrial duel,” which has just been published on the second most important newspaper in Spain, has turned into an outstanding one.
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- Pontius Pilate was the former governor of the Roman region of Tarraconensis;
- When he moved to Jerusalem, he took with him a team of native guards composed of Catalans;
- This team of native guards was the one executing Jesus Christ.
As a conclusion this demagogue says: Catalans killed Jesus.
Obviously this theory should be considered as ridiculous. Marcelo is talking about something that happened in the 1st century AC, and Catalonia did not become a nation until the 9th-10th century. Furthermore, in those days Catalonia was inhabited by Romanized Iberians whose language is not known. Afterwards, other people arrived in Catalonia and the resulting mixture of them all brings to the current Catalans. Much more, we do not have any records of Pilate taking guards from the Tarraconensis region to Jerusalem.
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Marcelo’s writing disaffirm by itself. Its existence is used to demonstrate a residue of the Spanish rotten society where Catalans are constantly being demonized, and any excuse is good to blame them for everything. Besides, we need to remember that all throughout history many progroms against the Jewish community started by accusing them of killing Jesus. One of the worse cases was that of the Nazis. Well, oddly the editor of the newspaper where this writing appeared also accused Catalans of being Nazis just for the fact of bringing Catalan flags to a football match. This is the same person who celebrated the victories of the Spanish national football team by asking everybody to display Spanish flags as a symbol of national pride.
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| Twitter account of the editor of the newspaper where he tweets "Sieg Heil!!!" referring to Catalans |
So in the short span of three days, the same newspaper (again, let's point out that it is the second most important Spanish newspaper) has accused Catalans of being Nazis and of killing Jesus. That is just a new record for the xenophobic demagogy, anti-Catalan manipulative discourse, which just foretells Spanish society to drift. All of this bring us to the point that any attack against damned nation, Catalans, is able to generate many problems, much more if they are invented. Si non è vero...
Jordi Vàzquez
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This is just ridicuous on so many levels. Catalans Nazis? What was Franco if not a Fascist? Hypocrite editors! Catalunya, next state in Europe!
Is an old spanish habit I think, if you're not with us you're against us. They are confused, they think they're so nacionalist and what they are is a gang of naZionalists. Next one is minister Wert saying that they will teach catalan children to feel proud of being spanish at schools (who's the nazi?). Freedom for Catalonia and for catalans.