I wouldn't want to start this article without expressing my solidarity - as I already did with the international Hermoso - with the policeman whom a protester planted a kiss in a "surprising, unexpected, sudden and non-consensual" way.
The fact goes back, like everything in our lives, to October 1, 2017. I imagine that this public servant must have gone through a silent ordeal of six years, with no more support - or not - than that of his partner , grandmothers and who knows if – I don't have them all – his colleagues, capable, on top of that, of playing jokes on him.
Rivers go to the sea and in Spain kisses go to court. It is now up to the judiciary to pay attention to the complaint, even if it is only to dismiss its processing. In case the instruction prospers, we already have sidral, with the extra incentive of knowing whether it was a libidinous or patriotic kiss, since the woman was trying to convey to the world her status as a good Christian, one of those who not only they turn the other cheek but their lips (all for the Republic!).
Having reached this grotesque point, I doubt whether the judicial system is capable of processing all the lawsuits that society so generously and abundantly sends, especially if we continue to lose our sanity and make a Vietnam of any episode.
I say that the means of justice are limited. The great national specialty is not paella a la marinera but the conviction of each and every citizen that their rights – or desires – are unrelated to public spending. It seems to me that the State does not spend a euro that it has not taken from you before. Or later...
And I don't want to say goodbye without reiterating my empathy with Jennifer Hermoso and the anonymous self-sacrificing national police officer, who said he was "disgusted" by the kiss, denounced today. I hope they get over the trauma as soon as possible.
In the meantime, as they say in these cases, we let the justice system do its work and if it lacks funds, either it is provided - it will not come from another inheritance tax - or we park the pending minor matters, such as commercial bankruptcies , cases of political corruption or lawsuits settled by stabbings in public streets.
The first is the first.
