THE Balearic University Campus and the highway to Valldemossa were daubed with threatening, fascist graffiti on Sunday, apparently the work of the Organisation for the Defence of Spain (GDE).
An independent youth group, the Maulets of Majorca, and a Catalan students group (CEPC) have denounced these acts of vandalism.
At midday on Saturday, young people from the Maulets of Majorca hung up a banner on the Valldemossa road which read Young people should value our land. On Sunday morning, the same banner reappeared on the Balearic University campus, pinned up back to front and painted with fascist symbols and threats against the Catalan students group.
The vandalism was extended to a concrete power point house belonging to the electricity company, Gesa, situated at the entrance to the campus. Graffiti also appeared on a similar structure belonging to the municipal water company, Emaya, and on road signs.
The aggressive text and symbols, wrought in red by the Organisation for the Defence of Spain, call for Majorca to be kept politically and culturally firmly within the dominion of Spain. The wording stigmatises the Catalan population and the national socialists, and is adorned with multiple swastikas. Additionally, the letter ñ (signifying Spain) had been daubed on all road signs along the route towards Son Espanyol.
The Catalan students group is meeting today to decide how to react to what is seen by them as a direct threat. They are concerned that the GED will infiltrate into the University to carry out further threatening acts.
Majorca has recently formed part of a Euroregion promoted by Catalonian regional government and recognised by the European Union. Key unifying factors in this association of Catalan speaking areas are linguistic and cultural.
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