Antonio MP was the victim of a savage attack in the center of Madrid. to the cry of “you’re a faggot” He received blows all over his body while they grabbed his neck. LA RAZÓN has accessed the testimony of this young man, who has a recognized 67% intellectual disability and is still seeking to identify the second person who participated in this violent episode.
The complainant of the assault still has scars on his body from the brutal beating he received. Their fight now focuses on two fronts: that it be recognized that it was a hate crime and that the second young man who participated and fled the scene of the events before the arrival of the National Police can be identified.
LA RAZÓN has had access to the police report of what happened in the early hours of April 13 in the vicinity of the well-known Square of the Cubes from Madrid. Antonio was in the company of a friend after having spent the night partying at the Cuenca Pub, a place with an LGTBI atmosphere.
Homophobic insults
While they were both on the public road, they were approached by two men and a woman, who addressed them with insults of a markedly homophobic nature, among which was the term “faggot”uttered in an aggressive, derogatory and constant manner. When both injured parties demanded that they stop their homophobic attitude, one of the men punched Antonio.
At that moment, the victim was immobilized by the neck by a young man who was not arrested while the only one investigated continued punching him in the face and in different parts of the body. The witnesses called the National Police and a patrol from the Moncloa-Aravaca Police Station appeared in the area that was the corner of Ventura Rodríguez and Martín de los Heros streets.
When the police arrived they found the “two parties arguing” and they had to separate those involved. First, they interviewed the alleged aggressor, a 22-year-old Spanish man, who had blood on both hands and gave them an “incoherent account” of what happened. He refused to provide the identity of the friend who was accompanying him.
A witness to what happened told the agents that he saw one boy grab the victim by the neck and another hit him with punches. The second young man got on a UBER and left the scene. He could only clarify that it was a tall man.
While all this was happening, Antonio was bleeding profusely from his nose and had bruises on his face and different parts of his body. He specified at all times the homophobic nature of the attack he had just suffered. The friend who was with him that night corroborated his version point by point.
From injuries to hate crime
An indication of the Samur-Civil Protection treated this young man who had a possible fracture of the nasal septum and also his companion who suffered an anxiety attack. Both had to be transferred to San Carlos Hospital.
He Court of Instruction number 15 of Madrid agreed in May to transform the event into a trial on minor crimes. However, the victim’s lawyer, David González Sancho, presented a subsidiary appeal to have preliminary proceedings initiated by the homophobic character of aggression.
Subsequently, in a ruling, to which LA RAZÓN has had access, the judge upheld the appeal. The next step of the procedure will be to take a statement from the witness who witnessed the attack that morning. Antonio continues hoping that he can find the other young man who pinned him down by the neck so that his friend could hit him. Something difficult but not impossible. You have already achieved the first step: to assess whether you were the victim of a hate crime.