The case of a minor who was supposedly sold by her family from Navarre to a woman from Lleida so that she could marry her 21-year-old son, aroused great concern this weekend, although there has been no judicial outcome yet. Various periodic information – sometimes contradictory due to the inconsistency with which departments resort in dealing with matters related to minors – indicate that the case archive was carried out despite police reports that initially indicated an economic deal between two families in which a minor was involved. The deal was also intended to force a 14-year-old girl into marriage, something specifically banned in Spain for a decade. The amount itself was small, and in addition to the amount paid – 5,000 euros and several bottles of whiskey – the smallest of which was Hallada at the gates of a supermarket in Borges Blanc asking for a limousine. With all these elements that managed to eliminate the Civil Guard and the Mossos, the judge did not find sufficient reasons to pursue the case and decided on the file.
The criminal investigation of a dispute of this kind, with minors, for example, untraceable economic transactions and an alleged marriage not contained in anyone’s official record, is complex, because the impossibility of this cannot be judged. But it is difficult to imagine that this series of speculations could end in a judicial file if the victim – there is no doubt that we are talking about a victim – is not the same as any other group stigmatized by signs of poverty and social marginalization.
It also calls for attention that the file was prepared so quickly, even though the minor declared that he did not feel like a victim of injustice when he announced this before the judge. Aren’t there dozens of victims of all types of crimes who did not know they were victims for months or even years? You may have more time to check if more things can be clarified. Meanwhile, society will continue to be scandalized for a while, and soon after that, it will move on to something else. Many will say: “I am a gypsy.” The problem is that these questions and how to address them when they occur, whether with wages or gitanos, do nothing more than increase the gap between administrations and citizens. Because no, they’re not “giant things”, they’re just things that appear in everyone’s face.
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