This Sant Jordi week we have experienced, once again, the usual double exaltation of bookish passion and interpersonal love. To put feelings back in their place, it is worth remembering that one thing is the roses they give you and another is the harsh reality.
Let us look, then, at an extremely interesting case that took place a few weeks ago in Vigo and which shows that from time to time it is advisable to get off the fig tree. One morning, around three thirty, someone called 092 that there was a big fight in a house on Volta Street. The local police came and could hear the shouting from the street. A man asked a woman to calm down. Through the window they saw how they were struggling. They managed to enter the house. Everywhere there was broken furniture, doors and glass. The man was bleeding from two wounds, one on his cheek and another in his mouth. He explained to the police that his wife – they were a couple, so she – had hit him with a table, and that she had threatened to kill him with an ax and a spearfishing spear that she was carrying in her hand. Before, she had smashed all the windows of the man's car with a brick; a Renault Scenic, details the Galician press.
The woman nodded. She explained to the cops that everything the man said was true, but that she had done it because she was tired of reproaching him for not taking enough care of himself and asking him to please do it, and that he didn't pay attention to her. She had done it for love, then. For love in its maximum expression: t'estimo tant que t'apunyego.
She was arrested as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of “violence in the family” and he was taken to a hospital. This Sant Jordi no roses have been exchanged, especially because in Galicia this vulgar custom is not popular at all.
