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Overnight from Saturday to Sunday, persons unknown vandalised the car of writer and Esquerra Republicana deputy Jenn Díaz. Luckily, the story ends here, and no other misfortune has to be regretted, although it's worth making a few comments. First, the town where it took place is Sant Andreu de la Barca, which has recently been the subject of media attention for a complaint from the Civil Guard against nine teachers from its Institut El Palau school for an alleged hate crime. Second, the facts that it took place in a residential area, that it was the only vehicle damaged of those parked there and that the car was yellow award the event, to begin with, certain political connotations which should at least be analysed, as the Mossos, the Catalan police, agree.

The pro-union side has shamelessly used Sant Andreu de la Barca and the Institut El Palau as a test case in its campaign accusing Catalan schools of indoctrination. The Spanish government, PP and Ciudadanos are threatening the Catalan education community and the media choir of Madrid's newspapers and TV channels does the rest. That's how the nine teachers have been made the target by a perfect combination of El Mundo and Albert Rivera. The newspaper headlined "The infamous nine Catalan teachers" a report with all their faces, and Rivera, Ciudadanos's leader wrote: "The separatist teachers who singled out children of civil guards in Catalonia. Public prosecutors are investigating them for hate crimes, but the Spanish government says it won't open an  investigation. Nationalism is never beaten with cowardice".

Third, the silence, at the time of writing, from the main pro-union leaders about the violence against deputy Jenn Díaz. No statement, even out of courtesy. Silence sometimes says much more than any statement.

Fourth, violence is never neutral. We've said it many times: a far-right which acts with impunity is making a comeback in Catalonia and politics isn't confronting it. It's the main violence in the streets of Catalonia now, beyond the fictional narrative with the magistrates in their togas write in their verdicts. There's a certain inaction towards the unfurling of the far-right, which has taken advantage of the Catalan conflict to revive itself and which has even taken a very visible position in pro-union demonstrations.

But the article 155 parties don't want to know anything about that.