The visit of the kings of Spain to Montserrat to commemorate the Millennium of the Abbey has caught the attention of the Spanish media, especially because of the tension with the independence protesters. Into Public mirror They recreated in the images of the confrontation with the Mossos and the tweet of Puigdemont criticizing the event. Griso’s Tertulians compared it with the people who manifested themselves in their day in the Valley of the Fallen and regretted their alleged ultra -Orthodoxy. A test of the knowledge of the collaborators. In Telecinco, Ana Rosa Quintana made a disgusting face when seeing the pictures of the protesters: “What did the kings do there?“He was outraged.”The subject is increasingly tense” concluded the presenter calling to a catastrophic drift.Is that it is the height that the kings of Spain cannot go to visit a part of Spain”.
The informative spaces did not give much importance to the visit of the monarchs. Into Antena3 News It was a brief at the same level as the slip of Emiliano García-Page, killing a penalty at an inauguration. In Telecinco and Cuatro it did not go from a jerk without further significance, and emphasized the low presence of pro -independence protesters that served to demonstrate the decline of the process.
The sixth news It was the chain that wanted to focus the most in the millennium of Montserrat. They reported on the hundreds of protesters, the shouts and whistles against the monarchs, and recovered a fragment of Philip VI’s speech where the extremism was sorry. Then they emphasized the history of Montserrat with a video of archival images, especially of the NO-DO. They put a sign on the screen to summarize the historical role of the abbey: “From Franco to Independic“They condensed. They included pictures of Franco by kissing the Moreneta or“Entering under Palio“In the basilica. They defined Montserrat as a favorite place for the dictator,”one of your special points interest“. They also explained that Montserrat had served the dictator as a source of inspiration to design his Valley of the Fallen. They glossed over the figure of Abbot Escarré as a grateful abbot to the Franco regime:”He managed to install vestiges and to perform Francoist acts“ They said of him, although they later added that in the 1950’s he distanced himself, he criticized the regime and was forced to go into exile. Entering the story of the seventies, they already explained how the Abbey had served as a refuge for dissidents and had become a space for the protection of Catalan culture or the founding of the convergence of Jordi Pujol.
This perception of the dictatorship where everything seems to be voluntarily, by sympathy and affinity for the regime, is symptomatic, and not for fear or lack of alternative. But this is not the first time that, in the portrait of Catalonia, Catalanism is a recent thing that appears after a Francoist past.
