Catalonia row deepens over family’s push for Spanish in school

Nationalists furious as court sides with family abused for seeking quarter of lessons in Spanish for their child

The long-running and bitter row over language teaching in Catalonia has intensified after a family in the Spanish region was harassed and abused for seeking to ensure that a quarter of the lessons at the school their five-year-old son attends are taught in Spanish.

The family's actions have provoked an angry response from some Catalan nationalists who view their stance as an assault on the region's language and culture.