PP's Councilman Posts Caricature of President Mas Dressed as Nazi

Jonatan Cobo Ortega, a councilman in Rubí (Catalonia) for Spain's Popular Party (PP), and former president of PP's youth organization, posted a caricature on Twitter of Catalan President Artur Mas dressed in Nazi uniform. His tweet seems to suggest that Artur Mas‘ call for a referendum on independence is tantamount to being a Nazi. Although he later deleted this tweet, PP has yet to condemn Mr. Cobo's action, or other similar ones by Pedro J. Ramírez.

This is but one among many other examples in which Spanish media and politicians, hell-bound on instigating hatred against all things Catalan, insist on comparing Barça and Catalans with Nazis.

Simultaneously, Spanish Foreign Minister García-Margallo has also descended to such low tactics by suggesting that the peaceful, democratic Catalan independence process reminds him of “Nazism and Marxism.”  The Spanish Minister also depicted an apocalyptic future for an independent Catalonia, which according to him would remain forever outside the EU. Finally, Margallo warned that those who try to deny the “undeniable Spanishness of Catalonia” are doomed to failure.

García-Margallo was speaking in response to a Catalan representative, who spoke for the need to  have respectful debate in the coming weeks, and stressed that the agreements negotiated during the Spanish transition to democracy “are effectively dead.” Margallo has made it clear that any political change will need to fit within the legal boundaries of the Spanish Constitution.

Jonatan Cobo's caricature on Twitter of Catalan President Mas
dressed as a Nazi SS officer.

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