Catalan public TV to take unionist leader to court for 'slander' and 'hate speech

The Catalan Media Corporation (CCMA), which runs Catalonia's public television and radio, is to file a number of lawsuits against the leader of the unionist Cs party in Spain, Albert Rivera, for "defamation, slander and inciting hatred."

The head of Catalan public television, Vicent Sanchis, told parliament on Friday that the decision was taken after Rivera accused the channel of calling the leader of Cs in Catalonia and party candidate in the upcoming general election, Inés Arrimadas, a "whore."

"When a political leader says that TV3 has called Inés Arrimadas a whore then he is lying and when this leader has been warned about it time and again, then all that is left is legal defense," said Sanchis, who added: "No one at TV3 called Arrimadas a 'whore'."