The National Police detain two of the young men, one of them a minor, who harassed the victims on a bus
Agents of the National Police they have stopped in Valencia two young people from 17 and 18 years, of Spanish origin, as alleged perpetrators of a hate crime after insulting and harassing two boys because of their sexual orientation. The events occurred just a few hours after the attack on two Fallas artists who were beaten shouting "fags" was reported.
It happened around eight thirty in the afternoon when a patrol that was carrying out security prevention tasks was commissioned by the 091 Room, to go to a store in a shopping center in the capital of the turia where apparently, a male couple was sheltered, whom a group of young people apparently wanted to attack because of their sexual condition.
Aggression on a Valencia bus
The agents found out that they had begun to reprimand, insult and threaten a couple of boys for their sexual condition on a bus in the city. EMT. The driver had to stop the vehicle out of stop so that the young people could get off before the turn that the situation was taking and avoid greater evils.
Apparently, the couple met again with the group of young people inside a shopping center, and they harassed them again, uttering all kinds of homophobic insults and threats, so the couple was in a great state of anxiety and nervousness, fearing for her physical integrity, she took shelter inside a store and called XNUMX while a store employee alerted security personnel.
Finally, the National Police managed to identify the suspects. The agents arrested two of them, one a minor. Both are charged as alleged perpetrators of a hate crime based on sexual orientation. Now the detainees, without prior records, have been brought to justice.
Fallas artists attacked
This same week two Fallas artists denounced a homophobic aggression also suffered in Valencia. They were rebuked and attacked by a young man shouting "fucking fagots”In the middle of the street. One of the victims suffered a broken foot as a result of the assault.
The events occurred last Sunday in the heart of the city, when the artists José Luis y Vicente, of the company artdefoc, They were heading towards their van to attend an event organized by one of the commissions in which they plant falla, according to the victims themselves.
To the cry of "maricones”, A young man began to scold them and spit at them. At first they dodged him, at which point the man got in their way and began to kick one of them. When the couple managed to get away from the assailant, they took refuge in a nearby cafeteria. Subsequently, they went to the hospital and then to the National Police station, where they filed the corresponding complaint of the events, providing the injury report.
