Barcelona (EFE) history” that the Catalan government has branded as “offense, insult” and “fake news”.
In the press conference yesterday to give explanations about the millionaire payments from FC Barcelona to the former vice president of the Technical Arbitration Committee (CTA), José María Enríquez Negreira, the president of the Catalan club, Joan Laporta, accused Real Madrid of carrying out an exercise of ” unprecedented cynicism” for appearing in the cause of the case.
Laporta described Real Madrid as a “team of the regime”, a few words that were answered by the Madrid club through its official television, which broadcast a video in which it denounced favors that the Catalan team received from Francoism. “Which is the regime’s team?” Real Madrid Television asked.
This Real Madrid video has provoked a forceful reaction on Tuesday from the Catalan government, whose spokesperson, Patrícia Plaja, has been asked about it at the press conference after the weekly meeting of the Executive Council of the Generalitat.
“The video that Real Madrid has broadcast is such a crude manipulation of history that it seems manual. It is ‘fake news’ (false news) indecent”, Plaja stated.
The spokeswoman recalled that it is not a video of a private user, but “of an institution and a club with so much impact and followers”, so it should be given “the importance it has, which is not little”.
“It is irresponsible, an offense and an insult to the thousands of people who suffered under the Franco regime, including FC Barcelona, beginning with the president at the time, Josep Suñol, who was shot by the regime and perhaps Real Madrid did not. remember,” he suggested.
For this reason, the Catalan government has considered that “it would be good if Real Madrid removed the video and apologized for having crossed a red line.”