The visit of the Spanish monarchs to Montserrat to commemorate the abbey's millennium has attracted the attention of the Spanish media, especially due to the tension with the pro-independence protesters. Public mirror They reveled in the images of the confrontation with the Mossos d'Esquadra and Puigdemont's tweet criticizing the incident. Protesters: "What were the kings doing there?" she asked indignantly. "The issue is becoming increasingly tense."the presenter concluded by appealing to a catastrophic drift. Cristina Cifuentes replied:"It's the last straw that the kings of Spain can't visit a part of Spain.".
The news programs did not give much importance to the visit of the monarchs. A Antena3 News It was a brief episode on par with Emiliano García-Page's slip while taking a penalty at an inauguration. On Telecinco and Cuatro, it was nothing more than a few boos without any major significance, and the scant presence of pro-independence protesters served to demonstrate the decline of the Process.
The Sixth News was the network that most focused on the millennium of Montserrat. They reported on the hundreds of protesters, the shouts and whistles against the monarchs, and republished a fragment of Felipe VI's speech in which he lamented extremism. They then emphasized the history of Montserrat with a video of archive images, mostly from the No-Do. They put a sign on the screen to summarize the historical role of the abbey: "From Francoist to independent" condensed. They included images of Franco kissing the Moreneta or "entering under a canopy"in the basilica. They defined Montserrat as a favorite place for the dictator,"one of its points of special interestThey also said that Montserrat had served as a source of inspiration for the dictator in designing his Valley of the Fallen. They praised Abbot Escarré as an abbot grateful to Franco's regime:He came to install vestiges and carry out Francoist acts" they said about him, although they later added that, in the fifties, he distanced himself, criticized the regime and was forced into exile. Entering into 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 for the foundation of Pujol.
This perception of the dictatorship is symptomatic, where everything seems to be done voluntarily, out of sympathy and affinity with the regime and not out of fear or lack of alternative.
