Brutal attack on a neighbor of A Coruña: «It was for homophobia, they didn't steal anything from me and I was carrying 70 euros«
A Coruña it is once again the scene of another brutal homophobic aggression, months after the murder of Samuel Luis. On this occasion, it is a 30-year-old man who received numerous punches in the face at dawn on November 13. Her friend and roommate has related what happened to the newspaper The voice of Galiciaas the victim is still stunned from the beating.
Rogerio Fernandesnatural Brazil, has been living in A Coruña. Unfortunately its beginnings are being hard, since the dawn of Saturday the 13th received a brutal beating. «He went out with some friends and around four in the morning they accompanied him home. Once inside the portal he heard a boy calling him from the door. They started talking and she agreed to go for a walk with him.«, Says her friend and roommate Elaine santos.
Little else remember Rogério, who hardly speaks Spanish. «He only knows that they punched him in the face and that hours later, at around 10.00:XNUMX a.m., an ambulance took him to Chuac. I was in Madrid And since I didn't pick up the phone, on Sunday I told some friends to go home. So they accompanied him to file a complaint«Says Elaine, who regrets that the lawsuit claims that his friend was drunk. «That doesn't give anyone the right to smash your face«. The medical report also indicates that he had bruises on his head and neck, that he was not able to open his right eye and that he had a deviated nasal septum. «This Tuesday we went back to the emergency room and they detected a lumbar fracture«.
Before what happened, Rogério He is afraid. «Cry every day and ask for forgiveness. He says he thought he was flirting and that he never thought something like this would happen to him«. Regarding the aggression, he is clear that it was due to homophobia: «They did not steal anything and I had 70 euros, the passport and the keys«, Says the Brazilian, while Elaine Add: "The problem is that we can't prove it«.
