Two young people injured after suffering a homophobic attack in Barcelona
GAYLES.TV.- New homophobic aggression in Barcelona: a young man has determined five points after receiving a beating with his boyfriend by seven people. The homophobic attack It happened last Saturday afternoon in the park Joan Miró of the Eixample district Barcelona. Both affected explained that they were sitting on a bench talking when a group of young people hit them and caused injuries of various kinds.
«We saw how on the one hand three came and on the other side four and as they approached they put on their hoods and covered their faces with hoods and T-shirts. I tried to escape but then he took me and started hitting me. He slammed me against an iron column and broke my glasses and made a hole in my forehead and my nose caught fire", Explain Xavier Martínez.
Finally both managed to escape and warn the Urban Guard de The agression. The seven attackers have already been denounced although they have not yet been identified. The victim has stated that «lately we are very used to seeing facts like that on television, on social networks and it's a little bit far away and you do not think it'll ever happen to you. Only the fact that it is reflected that this happens and happens in 2019 in Barcelona, an open, cosmopolitan city ... "
Martínez has published a message on Twitter along with a photograph that shows the gap that was opened in his forehead: «I thought it would never happen to me ... until last night. A small group attacked my boyfriend @ElkinIL and I while we were quietly sitting on a bench in Barcelona. Society seems to be advancing, but no… There is still a lot of work to do. # LGTBphobia«.
I thought that mai em passaria ... fins questa passada nit. A group is going to attack my boyfriend @ElkinIL My mind is quietly asseguts in a bank in Barcelona. Society seems to be moving forward, but not… Encara hi ha molta feina per fer. # LGTBfòbia pic.twitter.com/3o4FNUPBx6
- Xavier Martínez Vidal (@xmartinezvidal) June 1, 2019
Photographer: Twitter, El Periódico
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