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A Spanish pornographer has been given nearly 15,000 Euros of public money to make a series of blue movies, promoting the Catalan language. "To give public funds for pornographic films when in Catalonia, like the rest of Spain, there are people in terrible conditions, is an error bordering on misappropriation of state money."
Pro-separatist authorities in the Catalan region of north-east Spain approved the grant as part of their agenda to "promote Catalan in every medium". They awarded the film-maker, Conrad Son, nearly 10,000 euros to make one film and then a further 5,000 euros to show it along with two other examples of his work at a women's erotic film festival in the regional capital, Barcelona, last year. Details of the funding emerged when records of spending decisions by the regional government, the Generalitat, were made public.
The Newspaper ABC pointedly remarked that devolution has allowed diverse and minority elements to cease control of public funding. The commented they such spending was misappropriation of public funds.
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