BARCELONA — People required to the streets of Spain’s greatest cities on Monday night to reveal their anger at the death of a guy in a presumed homophobic attack at the weekend.
Crowds filled a main Madrid square and activists marched down a significant street in Barcelona, shouting mottos and waving placards and rainbow-colored flags.
“The response to the wave of LGBT-phobic hatred that ended the life of Samuel in A Coruna is overwhelming,” the left-wing Podemos celebration that governs in union with the judgment Socialists composed on Twitter.
Samuel Luiz, a 24-year-old nursing assistant, was beaten near a bar in the early hours of Saturday in the town of A Coruna, northern Spain, by numerous assaulters consisting of one who yelled a typical pejorative description of a gay individual, state broadcaster RTVE reported. He later on passed away in the medical facility.
Jose Minones, a city government agent in the area where A Coruna lies, tweeted that the cops were working to learn what took place and to bring the criminals to justice.
Local media estimated him as stating the examination would reveal whether the attack was encouraged by homophobia.
Interior Ministry information programs 278 dislike criminal offenses associated to sexual preference or gender identity were reported in Spain in 2019, an 8.6 percent boost on the previous year. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights alerts just a portion of hate criminal offenses are reported to the cops.
In main Barcelona, 21 year-old Sergio Cuevas stated: “I think this crime happened because homophobia kills.”
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