Two young men suffer various fractures after being victims of a brutal homophobic attack in Valencia to the cry of “julandrones”
A young man has reported a Homophobic aggression shouting “julandrones”. It happened early Sunday morning in the area of the Valencia's El Cid Avenue when he was with a coworker. Both have suffered serious injuries, he in particular the broken nose and your friend eye damage for which he was taken to hospital. The police have received a complaint about these events which they are investigating.
One of the victims, Manuel, has narrated the assault on his account Instagram, where he confirmed that he had filed a complaint about the events and stated that he had come to think that "died«. «It has been quite traumatic"He says, while stating that he remembered during the attack"of Samuel, the boy who was killed", in reference to the murder of the 24-year-old Samuel Luis, a A Coruña.
Manuel has described his four attackers, about 20 years old, who were in a bank when they saw them pass by: they were wearing tracksuits, one of them brown, and had electric scooters. In his account, he explains that at around 6.30 am he was with a friend at the intersection of Linares Street and Avenida del Cid, when the attackers first insulted them, calling them "julandrones"They chased them, attacked them and kicked them. He managed to get under a car from where he called the police. Police.
Your partner, Andy Le Sauce, suffered damage to his eye sockets, for which he was taken to a hospital for treatment. Manuel He asks for public collaboration and the dissemination of his message in case any neighbour might have seen something: «Any car, any business camera, if anyone saw those people«.
«Hate has no place«
La Mayor of Valencia, Maria Jose Catala, has echoed the news and has expressed his support to the victims on his X account: «All my support to Manuel and Andy after the cowardly homophobic attack they suffered yesterday. Hate has no place in our society.«.
For his part, the spokesman for Municipal Socialist Group, Borja Sanjuan, has regretted that Valencia have to «regret a homophobic attack again» and has claimed that «Freedom also consists of living free from those violent» and in the face of these attacks has called for Maria Jose Catala «to ensure that Valencia City Council makes a firm commitment to combat hate crimes«.
For the socialist spokesman, this commitment "It also involves criticizing the hateful actions that occur within the municipal government itself.» in which he recalled that two Vox councillors «They have been denounced by the Public Prosecutor's Office for hate crimes without the mayor having taken any measures to remove them from the government«. «This city must be free of homophobes both on the streets and in its governments.", he claimed.