Homophobic attack in Valladolid: a group of five young people attacked them with a glass bottle and insulted them with words such as "fucking faggot"
A couple has reported a homophobic attack in the city centre Valladolid, after a group of people in the early hours of Saturday to Sunday, December 8, five young people He would even attack them with a glass bottle and insults like "fucking fagot«.
Alberto, of 27 years, and Daniel, of 40 were spending the weekend in Valladolid. When the couple left the nightclub The Low located in the city center were insulted by a group of young people between 20 and 22 years old.Five guys saw us, we weren't even making out, I was smoking a joint", describes Alberto. They asked him for a cigarette.I told them no and they started insulting us violently: 'fucking faggots'».
They quickly became very aggressive. They started harassing them and, frightened, they went to the nearest pub to seek help: «The security guard told us that they were going to close now, but that we could stay with them.", account AlbertoThe couple stood at the door of the pub until they saw the group of five boys walking away. They thought they had already given up.
Brutal beating
«When we had already crossed the street, far from the pubs, the five of them appeared: three in front and two behind. They surrounded us when we were already in an area far from the bars, completely empty of people. They started shouting: 'faggots, sons of bitches'. They weren't going to rob us, they were going to hit us, directly. One of them with a glass bottle, also, smiled at Daniel, as if challenging him«.
Alberto He is still in shock, but remembers (almost) every detail: «They came to beat us, they beat us, they hit me on the head with a bottle. They started to struggle with Daniel and they took his mobile phone from his pocket and broke his watch.« They started screaming. «It was all very intense«, he describes.
Luckily, an Uber came by and they stopped it, placing the body on the hood. Only then, they describe, did the five of them run away. The Uber girl helped them and the police came.The police themselves took us to the hospital because I had a wound on my head from the bottle. They treated us, treated us and we went to report it.", account Alberto.
The PSOE of Valladolid has condemned this aggression in a statement: «We express our rejection of all types of discrimination and violence, declaring our support for the victims. We wish them a speedy recovery and encourage them to report any incidents. We must not allow hate crimes to continue to increase, normalizing aggression.«.