No, this is not "the father of the boy from Canet de Mar" (Barcelona) whose parents asked the Generalitat of Catalonia for 25% of classes in Spanish in their school

Two photos of a man are circulating with texts stating that he is the "pare del nen de Canet", in Catalan, or "the exemplary father of Canet de Mar who has put his son in the pillory", in comments on Spanish. They refer to the minor from this town in Barcelona whose parents requested the Generalitat of Catalonia to give 25% of the classes in Spanish at his school. In one of the photos, the man appears with his pants and underwear down and passing a star-shaped flag across his behind. In the other, she poses with the current president of Ciudadanos, Inés Arrimadas.

It's a hoax that he's the father of that child. The person in the images is Santiago Pulido, known for his actions against Catalan independence acts. The identity of the child's father has not been revealed in the media, but his name was published on a website, stating that he was on the lists of Citizens of Canet in the last elections held in the town. None of the people on that list is Santiago Pulido, although there is one who coincides in the first surname. The father's identity has been circulating since December 10 and the photos began to circulate later. From the Assembly for a Bilingual School (AEB), which is related to the family, they affirm to Maldita.es that the person in that photo "is not the father" of the Canet child.

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The man who appears in the photos is Santiago Pulido

The images have been in circulation since at least 2018. But they began to move with that text after learning about the case of the boy from Canet de Mar, a student Turó del Drac public school. The minor's parents requested that the Generalitat of Catalonia provide more teaching hours in Spanish at the center and other parents requested measures so that it was not applied.

The photo in which she appears together with Inés Arrimadas was taken in July 2018 in Canet de Mar, which is located in Maresme, a region within the province of Barcelona. When doing a search, we have seen a 2019 publication from Elnacional.cat in which a frame from a video recorded at the time the circulating photo was taken appears. Within the publication they assure that the "JxCAT councilor in Badalona and mosso d'esquadra David Torrents has indicated that it is Santiago Pulido, known in the Maresme" and they say that he is "among the ultras detained."

If we look at some details, we see that the cap this person is wearing is the same in the two photos that are being shared: it is blue, with what looks like white paint stains on the front and the Spanish flag on the front. one of the sides. The glasses also appear to be the same, blue and square. In this video published on YouTube and titled "Santiago Pulido, the particular 'scourge of separatists' from Maresme", we see more recordings in which this person appears. Among them, the two videos from which the captures that are circulating come out.

Santiago Pulido is known for his actions against the independence acts in Catalonia. In 2018 he was interviewed on an Intereconomía program, in which he was defined as "the Spaniard who cleans the streets of Mataró", which is also located in Maresme and near Canet, "with yellow ties". In the program he appeared in front of the truck with which he went through the streets removing posters and ties hung by the independentistas.

As for the detainees mentioned by Elnacional.cat, among whom was Santiago Pulido, it refers to seven members of the "remove ties" brigades who were arrested in 2019 for allegedly harassing independentistas, as various media reported of national communication at that time. On this website they published that Santiago Pulido assured them that he was one of the seven detainees in June 2019 and Okdiario also wrote about him that same year that "last June he was arrested by the Mossos, along with six men and a woman, for placing toilets with yellow ribbons before entities linked to Catalan separatism".

The identity of the father of Canet's child has not been disclosed to the media

The Canet de Mar family has remained anonymous since the case was reported in the media. However, according to La Razón or El Español, a "Catalan digital media" published "the name and surname, political party and profession" of the boy's father.

The website is Llibertat.cat and they have already removed the content, although they maintain that the "father from Canet de Mar who does not want his son to speak Catalan at school was on the list of C's in the municipality". The photo that they have removed was a capture of those lists of the 2019 elections, with the name of the father of the indicated child (which we did not add to preserve his identity). On that list of candidates for Ciudadanos there is no person named Santiago Pulido. (The electoral lists are public and can be consulted by anyone, but from Maldita.es we do not link them in this case to avoid as much as possible the identification of the minor's father).

On the other hand, there is a person whose first last name is Pulido, although neither the second nor the first name matches. The identity of the father was released on December 10, and comments claiming that the person in the photo is him began to circulate later.

The Assembly for a Bilingual School (AEB), which is in contact with Canet's family, assures that the one in the photo "is not the father" of the child

The Assembly for a Bilingual School, an association that claims to support "those parents who, like us, think that the best thing for our children is to study in the two official languages ​​in Catalonia", advised the Canet de Mar family.

From Maldita.es we have contacted the assembly, since it is related to the father of the minor, to ask if the person who appears in the photo is his father. They claim that he is not. We have also contacted the Mossos d'Esquadra in Barcelona and the Local Police of Canet, but up to the date of publication we have not received a response.

In short, the one who appears in the photos is not the "father of the boy from Canet de Mar" whose parents asked the Generalitat of Catalonia for 25% of classes in Spanish in their school.