A waitress rebukes a couple of men for kissing and throws boiling water at a young man who defends them in a bar in Lleida
A young man from Lleida has denounced a homophobic aggression that would have occurred on August 13 in a street bar Vallwarm.
According to the complaint filed at the police station of the Mossos d'Esquadra A waitress at the bar began to reprimand a gay couple who were sitting on the terrace of the establishment when the victim, who was leaving a nearby bar, allegedly reproached him for his attitude. The discussion escalated until the complainant threw some olives that were on the bar, to which the waitress responded by throwing a jug of boiling water that caused erythematous wounds in the complainant's right foot and abdominal area and also reached to a couple of tourists and another client of the establishment.
'I don't want fags here!'»
According to Giovanni lemes, victim of the aggression, a gesture of affection with her partner did not like the owner of the bar who did not hesitate to rebuke them. The woman left the premises yelling and insulting them. «He called us' fags', told us he didn't approve of it and yelled at us: 'I don't want fags here!'", remember slogans. After being shocked, a young man who was passing by, when listening to the owner of the bar, did not hesitate to reproach the woman for the homophobic insults.
The woman's reaction was very violent, and she ended up attacking the young man. «He took a jug of boiling water from the coffee pot and threw it at him from inside the bar.«, Relates John. The boy did not take long to denounce what happened and there was a quick trial that now awaits the sentence. For their part, the attacked couple reported this Friday to the City Council.
"It is not the first time that there have been problems of this type in the bar. A few weeks ago, the same waitress came out shouting at a couple of girls who were passing in front of the bar and told them to get out of there, that she did not want people like that in her place”Explained a neighbor in the area.
More LGTBIphobic aggressions
According to data from the Minister of Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, four out of ten hate crimes in Catalunya so far in 2021 they had a homophobic background. The Observatory against Homophobia points out that there have been 160 incidents this year due to LGBTophobia, 40 more than in 2020. An increase that qualifies as “challenge"And"alarming”Throughout the territory, with a special impact on public roads, social networks and the neighborhood environment of this group. In this sense, the entity regrets that some cases are seen as “isolated”And, therefore, the focus is not placed on a social problem such as LGBTophobia, what "legitimizes discriminatory practices".
In the last week Lleida has experienced two attacks against the LGTBI collective, something that according to the president of the association Colors of Ponent, Hector Gonzalez, "is continuous”. From the association they denounce that they are not only aggressions that entail physical damage, and they assure that the most common occur in the workplace and family. "Many people contact us looking for a solution because at home they have been asked to leave due to their sexual condition or because they do not want to treat them at work because of the gender with which they identify"He explained González, who added that “in recent years more is being denounced and the group is being given more visibility. In addition, we hold weekly meetings with the council of Civil rights".
