| Monday 07.25.05, Mr Christian Bourquin, President of the Conseil Général, regional advisor, Vice President of the Regional Counsel, former socialist
MP for the département of Pyrénées Orientales (north Cataluña), … and I have
probably omitted some of his titles, Mr Christian Bourquin, had invited
“his” guests, that Monday, to the “Palais des Rois de Majorque”. To have a
party what for? To promote the corrida of Millas taking place on August 7th.
Who was invited? One might think that all Catalan tax payers were,
particularly those who like bulls. But no! We were about fifty people,
smiling, with documents proving that we are Catalan tax payers in our
pockets, animal enthusiasts in general but bull enthusiasts in particular,
and we were not allowed to enter the palace to applaud to this kind Mr
Bourquin. The summit was that this party had been financed with our taxes.
We were prevented from entering in by a private ( !) security firm. On the
other hand I saw, among others, a man for the department of Marne, who had
not been invited (he told me so) be let in without a problem. I do not hate
these nice people of Marne, but was not this going a bit too far ? I was
wearing a white shirt and a Catalan suit, whereas he was wearing a stained
T-shirt. I pay my taxes here and am not allowed in; he does not pay taxes
here and is allowed in. How do I know that he was from the département of
Marne? It’s quite simple: "51" (i.e. the number of the département) was
printed on his T-shirt.
This nice Mr Bourquin, a socialist MP, who let an MP from the UMP party
build his high school in Canet while he had promised one in the south of the
département and another one in the north, this nice Mr Bourquin, who allows
a “septimaniac” (sometimes inhabitants of the département
Languedoc-Roussillon are called so) to change the name of our region, this
nice Mr Bourquin, who lets the Catalans be insulted in a French dialect,
this nice Mr Bourquin on the palace’s stairs mumbled, as we were trying to
tell him that we supported the fiesta in Millas but not so the corrida, this
nice Mr Bourquin mumbled to us : "The people needs to have fun".
Citizens of Millas, citizens of the Oriental Pyrenees, Catalans my brothers,
be informed that your taxes are used to torture bulls because « The people
needs have fun ». Stupid thing ! (I am referring to the people, of course).
Gérard Geiger
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