The victim of homophobic aggression in Girona: «You always think that it will not touch you«
Girona will demonstrate against LGBTophobia this Monday October 4 under the motto «The nostra força, the seva by (our strength, their fear)«. Different entities LGTBIQ + have called a rally at 20 hours in front of the town hall in rejection of the aggression homophobic that took place last night from Thursday to Friday in a bottle in Girona.
The youth of both the victim and the main aggressor is surprising. Bernat Bernabéu is Manresa and is 20 years old. Last Thursday I was partying with some friends at the Devesa of Girona when a stranger approached him and put his arm around his shoulder. He asked: «Are you the pimp or the crappy in the neighborhood?«. Bernat he said no. The 23-year-old aggressor asked him again: «Are you the fag?«. When he answered yes, he started punching him in the face until he was knocked unconscious. The victim lost consciousness and only remembers waking up after a while a few meters from where the beating occurred.
That night he went to the hospital Joseph Trueta the one that left at nine in the morning. Then he went to the police station Jaume i to make the complaint. «It doesn't scare me. We can do nothing more than report so that it does not go unpunished", has declared. «The blows are not only physical, they are also psychologicals »regrets Bernabeu.
In sóc the victim. From now on, it remains in the mans of justice.
Complain feta, i @mossos investigate the fets.
Thanks per tot. https://t.co/8AWqu7JrAT- Bernat Bernabeu (@bernat_bernabeu) October 1, 2021
On Friday the Mossos d'Esquadra they arrested the main aggressor to whom they attribute an alleged hate crime and another for minor injuries. In addition, in a statement they have added that they keep the investigation open and do not rule out making more arrests for the events that occurred in the bottle. They have also highlighted that the victim's complaint and the information given by the witnesses «it has been fundamental»For research.
Since January they have been counted 190 assaults LGTBIphobic en Catalunya. They are a 46% more than the previous year, and the 74% more if compared to 2019.
