Up to 30 families of pupils at Turó del Drac school in Canet de Mar affected by the High Court ruling establishing at least 25% of classes have to be in Spanish have decided to appear as affected parties in the judicial process to defend Catalan in the classroom. Since December, five-year-old pupils get 6 and a half hours of teaching in Spanish per week (25%), at the request of a single family, who appealed to the courts. This morning they have submitted a letter to Catalonia's High Court to ask to be included as a party in the judicial process. "We feel questioned because no one, neither the school nor the complainant family, has allowed us to defend ourselves," said Helena Díaz, spokesperson for the families.

The family of the five-year-old pupil at Canet de Mar's Turó del Drac school that demanded more classes in Spanish accused the Department of Education of "stoking" feelings of hatred among the population. In a letter written mixing Catalan and Spanish and spread by the Assembly for a Bilingual School, the entity that advises families who want more classes in Spanish for their children, the parents say that they do not want media attention and that the only thing they have done is to ask for compliance with the law and defend their rights. The family accuses the Catalan Government of lying when it assures that the current model of linguistic immersion is legal and considers that, as a result of the Supreme Court's ruling, 25% of classes ought to be in Spanish throughout Catalonia. "Don't be fooled," they say. They regret having suffered intimidation and threats, they are grateful for the solidarity, but they demand serenity and do not support any mobilisations.

Those who for years have wanted to turn language into an element of confrontation are licking their lips again. Every time there is an argument, they come out on top. It doesn't matter that coexistence in a school and, therefore, children's education is at stake. The same goes for the fact that, despite the profound disagreement with the courts' round-up of linguistic immersion, backed by its educational and coexistence success, the schools directly affected, such as the Escola Turó del Drac in Canet de Mar, comply with the required provisions.

The Provincial Prosecutor's Office of Barcelona has decided to investigate the offensive and threatening messages received through social networks by the family of the five-year-old boy who asked for more classes in Spanish at the Escola Turó del Drac in Canet de Mar (Maresme). As advanced by El Mundo and confirmed by ACN, the association Hablamos Español and Vox initiated a lawsuit, and the Prosecutor's Office wants to check whether they constitute a crime of incitement to hatred or discrimination.

The recipe to respond to the "attack" on the Catalan school model is to "prioritise coexistence" in centres. This is what Catalan Education minister Josep Gonzàlez-Cambray said at the gates of the Escola Turó del Drac in Canet de Mar, in the Maresme, where he went to calm the waters over the huge controversy generated by Catalonia's High Court's ruling to force the school to teach 25% of classes in Spanish, after a single family complained.