Evicted from a furniture store in Palma for speaking Catalan: "We're in Spain! What does your ID say?"

PalmA customer was attacked for speaking Catalan at Hipermueble, a well-known furniture store. According to the victim, the store manager violently asked her to leave the establishment for speaking to store managers in Catalan. "The manager expelled me from his business after refusing to switch to Spanish when I was the customer," Julia explained in a social media post.

"First, he rudely handed me a package that I was supposed to pick up, and then he started calling me violently," Julia explains. The attacker escalated because Julia didn't speak Spanish, and then he pushed her toward the store door, shouting, "We're in Spain! What does it say on your ID? You're not Catalan, you're Spanish," among others.

"He yelled at me, and while his employees looked on in ashamed mode, the most compassionate one offered me a glass of water, in Spanish," the victim explained. In response to these events, Julia filed a complaint with the local police, the General Directorate of Consumer Affairs, and the linguistic rights defense service of the Platform for Language.

However, Julia, a professor and postdoctoral researcher in linguistics at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and a member of the Catalunya Igual party, encouraged people not to give in to these attacks: "We are stronger than them, do not give in. The rights of the country and the land are ours."